Hoping we all can cash in over the next 3 weeks. Exciting times. FFC throws a bone in its latest discussion…
LONG TERM /Monday through Saturday/...
Only minor concern in the long term period is likelihood of
winter precip next Saturday.
What`s left of
front should be mostly out of the area by early
Monday with strong NW
flow and below
normal temps pattern
following most of the week. One
shortwave expected to drop down in
NW
flow on Wed but almost no chance for
moisture return in this
pattern so only clouds expected. 12Z deterministic
GFS somewhat of
an outlier with deeper wave traveling west of the area with a
little more clouds and a spot or two of light precip. Even GEFS is
dry so only 5-10%
PoPs for Wed night this cycle.
Wave digs deeper and amplifies as it moves into the Atlantic with
very strong NNW flowand
subsidence over the area Thurs/Fri.
Meanwhile, upper low over the SW
CONUS left behind in split
flow
finally
progged to kick out east across the southern states. These
kickers are notoriously hard to get the timing right and models
can be off by 24-48 hours. So anyway, assuming the wave does move
into the SE by next weekend, we would see a slightly favorable
setup for light winter precip at onset with liquid precip falling
into cool and very dry low levels. With very low confidence in
pattern and generally low model confidence at day 7-8, have not
included in official grids at day 7 but do have a spot or two in
our placeholder for day 8 (sunday).
SNELSON