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Wintry Machine Learning Mauler 1/30-2/1

View attachment 189868Still snowing at the outer banks
This map now holds the record for the highest snowfall totals I have seen in a model run. I don't believe Raleigh will get forty inches of snow this weekend but it was a sight to behold.
 
Those overnight model runs were incredible. I've never seen snowfall totals like this for the Carolinas. I know it's still too early to be running victory laps but the potential for something special is in the air.
I agree. Great disco overnight. The ULL energy and precip is still there on all of the modeling and looks to kickoff late night Friday. You would have to think it’s almost a given. The coastal low is more of a wild card with the boom potential. The midatlantic and Northeast crews can sweat out whether or not the low gets captured and crawls up the coast, but the die is being cast for the initial part of the storm for the Carolinas it seems.
 
JMA
Canadian
Ukmet
6Z GFS
Spire
Where like Major League Crush Jobs
Euro, AI's are nice hits as well as ensembles. Feeling real good this a.m. about the ole backyard. But I want us to go for it. Canadian Op style. Today will be very telling at 12z and 0Z tonight. Cause as the sun rises tomorrow morning we will be solidly under 72 hours before start time.
 
The trend on the euro ai and gfs ai has been for a further south and more tilted vort pass. They’ve also trended a little quicker. These trends seem to be helping the upper level precip but possibly hurting the coastal bomb/hugger chances. Possibly bc the trough has broadened a bit?

These changes are also putting them more in line with weathernext.

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Good gracious that Canadian run is the stuff of legend. Of course after such an excellent performance at this range last week, it'll probably fall flat on its face when we need it. I'll never shake the Jan '25 CMC Mania Disasterclass. Euro is probably the best middle ground at the moment and it still positively buries eastern NC.

If you need to know if a run is looking "better" or "worse" at hour 72 today, go look at the 0z Canadian. That's the blueprint.
 
RAH’s take on it this morning. (Abbreviated)

.WHAT HAS CHANGED...
As of 400 AM Tuesday...

* Confidence is increasing for coastal cyclogenesis favorable for a period of snow and bitter cold in the Carolinas some time between Fri night into Sun morning, although amounts and impacts remain uncertain.


This synoptic setup is the most favorable pattern to produce significant snowfall totals for the Carolinas, but are not a guarantee that we would see impactful snow accumulations
everywhere/anywhere. The finer details within the mesoscale still need to be resolved, and the placement of the mid/upper low and
surface cyclone need to remain in close proximity to the Carolinas to increase confidence in an impactful event. For now, greatest confidence to see at least minor impacts from this system would be from the eastern Piedmont towards the Carolina coast where greater and more prolonged rates within the deformation band are most probable.
 
AIFS ENS looks to be shedding noise and honing in on a main region of QPF to me

Gold standard 0z Canadian:
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New AIFS ENS
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Canadian with a shorter western ridge and bit further southwest dug in with the vortmax. Later in the run the same differences, but downstream effects means CMC is more neg tilt by then

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Just to give an idea of what to look for esp if you are west of I-77 :)
 
I still haven't seen the overnight snowfall map. Anybody got it?

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It seems like google led the way with the trend east the last 2 days as well as the precip over the upstate. Other models have seemed to all fall in line overnight. Now we need to see if google gives us a westward expansion w precip today, fingers crossed.
 
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