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Pattern January Joke

I’m looking at it and I just don’t see a scenario where we snow. I mean I know there are scenarios where travelers rest can score in late arriving cold setups but this is certainly not South Carolinas bread and butter setup. As it stands At least. It’s just brutal living on the immediate Lee side. Until you get a wedge but that never even happens any more
We’re not roasting out ahead of it. No need to panic yet. Hi-res models would have dumped on us with this depiction.

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We’re not roasting out ahead of it. No need to panic yet. Hi-res models would have dumped on us with this depiction.

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You’ve got to get that cold bleeding south prior to precip. There’s got to be some sort of gap between front and rain. Need cold air sagging in some way shape or fashion prior or you can forget about
 
Here are the individual members from the gefs. Several big dogs, lot of nothings but much more noise for sure.

Getting some 12/8/17 vibes for our area but definitely seeing some big potential. Hope we can increase those the next few suites. That AI Euro looks nice.
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It’s actually a really smart model to know exactly where there won’t be any snow. I’ll give it that. It’s really ahead of its time in many ways View attachment 182297
Absolutely. They have done a great job of programming into this model that mother nature does not allow snow in SC; outside of the occasional coastal; and that outputs should portray such. This at least shows where snow is possible and where it is not.
 
My two cents: for upstate, SC.

System 1: never been a real possibility and it’s completely dead at this point.

System 2 is most likely going to be a weakish band of precip. We’re gonna have better thermal profiles as a result, maybe good enough for snow north of i85. But we’re going to be fighting for qpf all week. Much more likely to lose this storm to no or little qpf then to lose it to heavy rain. As far a temps… we will be fighting for better cold out ahead of the storm, not for better caa as the storm moves through; that likely wont matter or come in to play, imo.

As such, I like where we sit right now. If we can hold on to a storm signal the next few days.
 
My two cents: for upstate, SC.

System 1: never been a real possibility and it’s completely dead at this point.

System 2 is most likely going to be a weakish band of precip. We’re gonna have better thermal profiles as a result, maybe good enough for snow north of i85. But we’re going to be fighting for qpf all week. Much more likely to lose this storm to no or little qpf then to lose it to heavy rain. As far a temps… we will be fighting for better cold out ahead of the storm, not for better caa as the storm moves through; that likely wont matter or come in to play, imo.

As such, I like where we sit right now. If we can hold on to a storm signal the next few days.
You listed two things that both sound terrible lol no storm for round 1 and little to no qpf for round 2. How do you still like where we stand with those 2 scenarios? Unless your fine with a possible dusting for round 2. Just curious.
 
You listed two things that both sound terrible lol no storm for round 1 and little to no qpf for round 2. How do you still like where we stand with those 2 scenarios? Unless your fine with a possible dusting for round 2. Just curious.
A realistic outcome right now is a .2-.4 liquid event with 2-3 inches snow. That’s a very classic type of storm for us and wouldn’t shock me if that’s what we get here. That’s the hope for us, imo. Anything bigger is gonna be like 1/100 lottery odds.
 
One more thing and I’m done. Haha

Euro ai mean and gfs ai mean want to have this weak band arrive in north ga/western upstate Saturday morning. If we get arrival that early… it’s 100% gonna be an all snow event(assuming adequate qpf to wetbulb). The air mass left behind from storm 1 is super dry and plenty cold. We’re gonna be at like 34/10 Saturday morning before precip arrives. You don’t rain from that.

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18z euro ai mean cut way back on total for tn/nc because it has lots more dry members. But overall the foot print stayed the same if not shifted south and east a little.

This is not an awful spot to be in(if you’re in north ga/northern upstate sc).

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If I had to guess on the dry members showing up. I would think the energy didn’t link up like it was on the earlier up. (Energy got left behind).
 
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I noticed on the GEFS, that trough is trying to dig more to the SW toward TX/NM by Saturday morning. Also noticed the Atlantic ridge trying to poke westward. Might not mean much in the grand scheme of things, but interesting nonetheless.


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I'm good this week, at least through Saturday, per RNK. Cool and DRY! It's a brisk January night out there, 63 degrees... smh

Ha we had a cold front to go back to average here. Back above normal Monday Tuesday... Wednesday.... Thursday... Friday... Now remember it's been above normal for a month straight basically
 
Ha we had a cold front to go back to average here. Back above normal Monday Tuesday... Wednesday.... Thursday... Friday... Now remember it's been above normal for a month straight basically
It's really almost about to drive me away from the love of chasing the elusive WINTER STORMS. It just stinks anymore. But I can't help it. What time does the 00z ICON start? I need help!!! lol
 
It's really almost about to drive me away from the love of chasing the elusive WINTER STORMS. It just stinks anymore. But I can't help it. What time does the 00z ICON start? I need help!!! lol

Yeah I've chased west the last couple winters for real but this year I dunno I just don't have the vibes. I checked Lake Tahoe where I sort of have a backup plan last night and it had highs in the 50s multiple days. Even Breckenridge has days above freezing! Like thats crazy
 
It's really almost about to drive me away from the love of chasing the elusive WINTER STORMS. It just stinks anymore. But I can't help it. What time does the 00z ICON start? I need help!!! lol
Definitely not like it was when we were growing up around here. Always saw snow. Sometimes for two days
 
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