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Pattern January 2021 - Joyless January

First GEFS run w/ less medium-range -NAO in quite some time, figured we would see at least one run like this at some pt given that basically almost every run in the last 2-3 days has trended stronger. These individual wave breaks on the N Atlantic jet are really hard to forecast & may be a lot more back/forth between now & then left to be had.

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sdm47 said:
I don't think we're as far apart as you may think. What I am saying is that for those of us outside of the more favored climo areas of the southeast, it is a mighty fine needle to thread without a parent high of any kind and it is much more likely to end up with a snowfall distribution like 12/18-12/19/2009. That one sucked like heck and many areas looked to be right on the line for days ahead of that one only to end in a few meaningless flakes considering areas just to the west got clobbered. Of course anything is possible with a lot of cold air aloft around, but it requires more help than if a parent high were in play. Anyway, I hope like heck I am wrong.

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I'd say we're pretty far apart here. The Miller A composite of big storms east of the mtns in NC has no cold high to the north whatsoever. The cold advection is the same whether you have a strong coastal lows + normal pressures to the north vs normal pressures & high pressure to the N. There's some relationship hydrostatically but these Miller As more often than not do not have any cold high. Bigger cold high to the N gives you CAD not a Miller A.

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sdm47 said:
I don't think we're as far apart as you may think. What I am saying is that for those of us outside of the more favored climo areas of the southeast, it is a mighty fine needle to thread without a parent high of any kind and it is much more likely to end up with a snowfall distribution like 12/18-12/19/2009. That one sucked like heck and many areas looked to be right on the line for days ahead of that one only to end in a few meaningless flakes considering areas just to the west got clobbered. Of course anything is possible with a lot of cold air aloft around, but it requires more help than if a parent high were in play. Anyway, I hope like heck I am wrong.

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You want the most quintessential example of a coastal low that looks almost exactly like the composite I just showed (which you subsequently disliked, be salty idc)?

December 25-26 2010.

Your sfc high is over Minnesota & western Ontario. That's more than good enough to get the job done, don't need it directly to our north over the Lakes & NE US



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We're far more likely to see a widespread winter storm, outside of the climo-favored areas of the SE, with a high pressure in or near a favorable position as opposed to no high pressure, as some would like to lead you to believe. That's not to say a winter storm can't occur with out it, but it's much better to have one present. This one is easy.
 
sdm47 said:
I don't think we're as far apart as you may think. What I am saying is that for those of us outside of the more favored climo areas of the southeast, it is a mighty fine needle to thread without a parent high of any kind and it is much more likely to end up with a snowfall distribution like 12/18-12/19/2009. That one sucked like heck and many areas looked to be right on the line for days ahead of that one only to end in a few meaningless flakes considering areas just to the west got clobbered. Of course anything is possible with a lot of cold air aloft around, but it requires more help than if a parent high were in play. Anyway, I hope like heck I am wrong.

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Here's another one for good measure:

Jan 24-25 2000, widespread 1-2 feet+ of snow east of the mtns.

No cold high anywhere in sight to our north, actually there's a low over the Great Lakes

I think you get my point...

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Rain Cold said:
We're far more likely to see a widespread winter storm, outside of the climo-favored areas of the SE, with a high pressure in or near a favorable position as opposed to no high pressure, as some would like to lead you to believe. That's not to say a winter storm can't occur with out it, but it's much better to have one present. This one is easy.
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Umm no.


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Rain Cold said:
We're far more likely to see a widespread winter storm, outside of the climo-favored areas of the SE, with a high pressure in or near a favorable position as opposed to no high pressure, as some would like to lead you to believe. That's not to say a winter storm can't occur with out it, but it's much better to have one present. This one is easy.
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Yeah this is like one of the ABCs of forecasting winter weather in the southeast, this isn't some complex notion. And choosing two extreme events - one of which has a high to the west just like the Miller A composites only proves this point further.
 
Was getting ready to post the UKMET: Anyone got maps past hr 120?
 
sdm47 said:
Yeah this is like one of the ABCs of forecasting winter weather in the southeast, this isn't some complex notion. And choosing two extreme events - one of which has a high to the west just like the Miller A composites only proves this point further.
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It really doesn't because someone like you would then turned around and say something misleading like "that high is in a bad position (or whatever excuse you wanna use)" when it's not.
 
sdm47 said:
Yeah this is like one of the ABCs of forecasting winter weather in the southeast, this isn't some complex notion. And choosing two extreme events - one of which has a high to the west just like the Miller A composites only proves this point further.
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I’m pretty sure the meteorologist here including myself know the ABCs but just like in real life with anything it’s much more complicated than that.. the simpler you make things the more room for error
 
We’re gonna have to make it work without a high pressure to our NE, it is what it is, Oh well. while I like CAD setups, there’s a reason why every winter storm in the Carolinas isn’t related to CAD all the time, other setups like miller As (which the composite doesn’t have a CAD signature) works out, I mean I hear complaining about miller Bs that have CAD, what do we exactly need ? Lol, go drink a miller lite and relax
 
EastAtlwx said:
I’m pretty sure the meteorologist here including myself know the ABCs but just like in real life with anything it’s much more complicated than that.. the simpler you make things the more room for error
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Bingo. Yes it's really not that simple as some here are trying to make everyone believe. It's not as easy as give me cold air & a big cold high to the north to transport and then that's automatically the best setup for everyone. It gives you a certain type of winter storm but that's not always a good setup for most including areas like say the coastal plain/I-95 corridor of NC, where Miller A cyclones usually deliver bigger winter storms per capita than overrunning or CAD.
 
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