Good Friday evening bloggers,
Gary is working Sunday night so I am filling in for him at 10 PM tonight and the forecast remains a challenge for Saturday. The new data is rolling in and more strongly suggesting that we could see snow Saturday afternoon and evening with a dusting-2″ possible. The window of opportunity for the snow would be 3-10 PM. The accumulating snow may last no more than 2 hours during that window. We will know more tomorrow, but it is a small, fast-moving system, almost like trying to find a “needle in a haystack”. So, this forecast may change quickly up until the last minute.
Below are the 2 scenarios we have been looking at. Meteorologically, it is a small difference, to us, it is a major difference.
SCENARIO #1: Earlier data.
SCENARIO #2: Latest data
#1 stil may be right, so we will see what it looks like early Saturday.
Have a good night and the cold front is 2-3 hours away!
Jeff Penner
Great! Jeff please make it happen! I am signed on with snow terminators!
0z GFS also looking better for snow (going from flurries to about 1″), although it either doesn’t have the banding shown by the short range models or is too coarse to show it at this point.
“http://wxcaster.com/gis-snow-overlays.php3?STATIONID=EAX”
latest NAM snow map shows 1-3″ for the metro wih maybe 4″ just to our south-west
“http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/gfs/00/gfs_namer_030_precip_ptot.gif”
latest 0z GFS total precip map shows .10-.25″ of precip for the metro
Thanks for the map, Champs.
no problemo
How do I look at them champs? I can’t on my iphone
how do open the link? to look at the link just copy&paste the URL and paste it in your address bar, but remember to NOT include the quote signs. Hope this helped
sweet, bring on the white stuff.
brad
We go from a snow forecast of 20 percent, up to 30 percent and now forecasting 2 inches!!! Really??? Maybe by morning, we will b up to 4 inches. Joe Joe, what do u think?
Shoeless joe?
jeff,
how heavy is the snow in the DARK pink color on the powercast you showed?? that dark pink area came over where I live
“http://grib2.com/gfs/CONUS_GFS0P5_SFC_ACCUM-SNOW_30HR.gif”
latest GFS snow map shows a little less than the NAM with 1-2″ for the metro
This potential snow has had our attention for five days. and it looks like it, may happen. I will write up a blog at 7 am
Jeff,
how heavy is the snow in the dark pink color on your powercast you showed tonight?
Here’s hoping we get none of that disgusting white stuff.