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Pattern January 2021 - Joyless January

Dewpoint Dan said:
I didnt know 1" was considered a smacking ?
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Having driven thru several of these bands yesterday in the northern Piedmont I’d consider it a smacking. Probably the highest snow rates I’ve ever seen around here just only lasted 15 mins. Yanceyville and Roxboro had legit 40 dBz+ snow, you blinked and then there was 0.5” on the ground. Blink again and there’s almost an inch and it already stopped. I personally would rather have the insane rates and less snow vs tons of it and mediocre snow rates. It’s way more entertaining imo
 
Webberweather53 said:
Not too many reports from there, could imagine that someone picked up an inch there but honestly have no way of knowing it. Roxboro and Yanceyville got smacked yesterday too and I think yanceyville was close to 1”
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I went out this morning on hwy 42 at the Harnett/chatham border there was a maybe a mile long strip that still had a little snow cover seems like that area got the longest time in the band last night
 
Webberweather53 said:
Here are my preliminary snow & sleet accumulation maps for both NC & SC for the winter storm that wrapped up late yesterday.

Thanks for everyone's reports on here the last few days, they proved to be quite invaluable to this analysis.

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Yeah, I saw close to an inch here, which is exactly what you have on your map...what program do you use to create the maps? I've always liked their look.
 
WxGSO said:
Yeah, I saw close to an inch here, which is exactly what you have on your map...what program do you use to create the maps? I've always liked their look.
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I actually use a photo editing software (pixlr E) and make every map that’s on my site by hand. I think it’s still superior to almost anything you could do coding wise, it forces me to really pay attention to every detail with each storm, and I feel like I have a lot more control over my analyses.

https://pixlr.com/
 
They would really increase the accuracy scores of the GFS at D+7 if they would just hard code every eastern trough that the model sees over to the central US. I mean every once in a blue moon it would end up wrong, but it would work most of the time.
 
So our great pattern that we suppose to be heading to just disappear or is it still on the table and the models are having a hard time figuring it out
 
Clem282340 said:
So our great pattern that we suppose to be heading to just disappear or is it still on the table and the models are having a hard time figuring it out
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The last day or so, the awesome pattern looks a little less awesome, tbh. We'll see.
 
Webberweather53 said:
We just need high latitude blocking of some sort near to north of Alaska to really unleash the kind of air masses into this pattern that areas down thru the 20 corridor can legitimately have a shot to cash in on a big dog. If that doesn’t materialize, still not the worst pattern in the world but would be one that is mostly an I40 and pts north type pattern
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Would be nice to get a -WPO with the -NAO
 
SnowNiner said:
Is that good? I'm not sure anymore. Is it cold? It looks like we're losing ridging north of alaska and lost the +PNA. But lake lows are good now so maybe?
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It's warm snow cold. What happened to the big bright purple/fuchsia blob that was centered right over the SE?
 
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