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Wintry Winter Storm Dec 7-10

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WOW!!!
 
Need to watch for a phase between the long wave at the baroclinic zone and that clipper. The timing is very, very crucial. The chance of phasing is small, but the chance is there.
 
WeatherWatch said:
Yeah, if any area's start off as rain/IP, it will quickly change over to snow.
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Hypothetically speaking if this ended up dropping wintry precip, definitely would be a classic case of rates driving precipitation type, certainly something we're more accustomed to especially in late winter/early spring... There's not much room for error however because once the freezing level is just close enough to the surface to changeover to snow, it will be falling so heavily that accumulation will commence in short order regardless of ground temps, etc. You can go from cold rain to several inches of snow in a heartbeat and only a very minute change in the temperature profile w/ setups like this... Certainly worth watching
 
Strange happenings when Macon is the same temp as Detroit!
 
The new run is even more suppressed, but the good news is that the energy across the central us does move faster, allowing the low to initiate faster. The faster the initiation of the low, the further nw it'll go. Seems to be the trend.

In terms of the clipper: let's be honest, nobody is gonna get anything special from a clipper.
 
bouncycorn said:
The new run is even more suppressed, but the good news is that the energy across the central us does move faster, allowing the low to initiate faster. The faster the initiation of the low, the further nw it'll go. Seems to be the trend.

In terms of the clipper: let's be honest, nobody is gonna get anything special from a clipper.
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Clippers rarely work out but tell that to March 1927 which came from the WNW-NW
 
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