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Wintry January 14-16th storm potential.
- Thread starter TheBatman
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Only analog remotely close to this setup that I could find, well that resulted in snow, was late Jan 2010. But in 2010 the upper low in SE Canada lifted out allowing HP to feed in...we aren't getting that this time.
whether you see this as glass half full or glass half empty depends on your latitude
deeper south is probably happy to be handed a ticket to the game
mid-south (myself included) is unhappy that our EPS totals just got a 30% reduction
just happy to have something to gawk at next few days. first real threat for lots of us since that storm in jan 2022 (22nd? 23rd?)
Down our way we need every bit of an improved cold feed. It’s the best EPS run for us yet for that reason.
To me this reminds me a lot of the 2014 winter storm that caused the ATL snow jam. Wasn’t a big system but had widespread snow
Looking back, it did have some pretty good totals in ENC as it wound up, similar to what some ens members have
Looking back, it did have some pretty good totals in ENC as it wound up, similar to what some ens members have
Best EPS mean of the year for me with about 1.2"
January 28th-29th 2014. The one thing that storm had going for it was we had really really cold ground temps because of the previous ten days.
RoddyPiper
Member
Snowmageddon 2014 feels....
packfan98
Moderator
Does anyone else feel this is somewhat similar to the Christmas Day storm that got squashed until the last 24 hours? I'm not sure if the pattern is similar or not. We are in the ballgame at least.
distinctly remember that storm for having some of the most ludicrous clown maps of my life. four days out and the CMC was spitting out 4 inches of frozen qpf for places like savannah. weather channel shipped cantore out to charleston for ice (that was a bust). in raleigh we were thinking 3-6 inches of pixie dust (we got 2.6 or something like that).
agreed with similarities but i need to see a 24 inch bullseye over fayetteville before I really get excited (and no joke that was was half the ops runs were spitting out for that storm)
olhausen
Member
Yeah it happens usually every 4-5 years. I’d have to go back and look but 11-12 days below happened back in February 2015. January 2018 had a long stretch also.
Yes. Mainly in that a minor adjustment in wave strength from energy that isn't onshore yet can take this from 0 to 100.
Yep. I can’t recall many more setups like this that had the low/TPV around Hudson Bay for NC snow, we’re getting lucky with the trough pivoting around acting in a way as our cold feed. It’s definitely different from the traditional Atlantic Canada vortex in most of our setups
Darklordsuperstorm
Member
Parker
Member
EPS charts for BHM compared to 00z, almost doubled in average. Also many more members and some juicy ones. Have to love the trends here for our area.
NWS GSP now has R/S in the grids for most of the Piedmont of NC
I mentioned this previously, but you can thank the block for that. I would like for everyone reading this board to just step back, take a deep breath, and behold a true, west-based NAO block. We've gone years and years without seeing this. I think we should pause for a moment to enjoy.
So many winters, we just hope and pray for a little ridging up there somewhere. A block like this is not going to be quick to break down and move out. It's good to remember that, because as long as it's there and of that magnitude, things in the modeling are going to have more of a tendency to press south than they usually do, as we move in closer...up to a point, at least.
