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Pattern January 2021 - Joyless January

All I will say is I don't think it's wise to argue with the guy who spent most of his life researching and analyzing data for SE winter storms and who has a degree in the field. I'll leave it at that. Now I think we have 2 potential winter storms here. The Southern slider is very suppressed on a lot of the guidance which is where you want it at this range still. The Day 9-10 storm on the euro is a beaut as the 50/50 low is in a perfect spot with CAD building in. That is a picture perfect snowstorm for the northern upstate (6-10" of all snow) a mix bag of snow, sleet, and ZR in the central, southern upstate, and northern midlands (2-4" snow & 0.25+ of ZR) and a pretty big ice storm for the pee dee region (0.5+ ZR, 1-2" snow). That's generally how a lot of our wide spread winter storms look around here.
 
All I will say is I don't think it's wise to argue with the guy who spent most of his life researching and analyzing data for SE winter storms and who has a degree in the field. I'll leave it at that. Now I think we have 2 potential winter storms here. The Southern slider is very suppressed on a lot of the guidance which is where you want it at this range still. The Day 9-10 storm on the euro is a beaut as the 50/50 low is in a perfect spot with CAD building in. That is a picture perfect snowstorm for the northern upstate (6-10" of all snow) a mix bag of snow, sleet, and ZR in the central, southern upstate, and northern midlands (2-4" snow & 0.25+ of ZR) and a pretty big ice storm for the pee dee region (0.5+ ZR, 1-2" snow). That's generally how a lot of our wide spread winter storms look around here.
Agree with ya on this one. The slider isn't totally over yet and that storm the Doc shows on the 21st-22nd is a classic set up. Fits the time frame Webb has touted as the prime time frame. Although not a guarantee its definitely the best look I've seen so far. Hopefully she holds for us.
 
I see you ? NAM! Thursday suprise up in here! Was flurries yesterday! 092AF9FF-E606-4571-ACE3-7FBB558A4328.pngA71067D7-A84F-4963-895C-5EE53A85AE74.png
 
Looks better to me at H5 In terms of potential compared to 12z View attachment 65329
You want a little more interaction and a neutral tilt at that location, sort of like what the UK showed...although I suspect the UK would have violently lifted north soon there after and would have ridden just inland or right along the coast.
 
Wrt those SN showers under the ULT, could certainly see some stuff sneak east of the mountains, sorta reminds me of a warmer version of Christmas, most likely would be flurries although a burst of snow in them is not impossible, but that inverted V screams virga, but is also the reason you could go from light rain >>>> evap cooling >>>> get down to wet bulb temp and light snow, we sure are running up the flizzard count this year F16A1652-86B5-44C9-874C-C8A3F079AE0E.pngC1224522-8695-4CA0-8044-4FA895FD33A6.pngE44F0EB0-0F0E-4647-B678-D0CF2CC2DCBA.png
 
You want a little more interaction and a neutral tilt at that location, sort of like what the UK showed...although I suspect the UK would have violently lifted north soon there after and would have ridden just inland or right along the coast.
Hopefully we trend to that and not waste it
 
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You want a little more interaction and a neutral tilt at that location, sort of like what the UK showed...although I suspect the UK would have violently lifted north soon there after and would have ridden just inland or right along the coast.
If you’re in RDU, you wanna see the trough axis go neutral around the AL/GA border +/- 100-125 miles or so. If you’re tilting neutral sooner around say Mississippi like Jan 87 & Mar 93, the sfc low will indeed track too far inland and it’ll end up being a Apps centric snowstorm with significant totals confined along/west of I 85 & mostly rain in the east-central Piedmont + coastal plain.
 
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