Hype: Cold, Now Eastern Storms?
UPDATE: We have clarified our stance on the chance of snow from this week's storm with the following map:
ORIGINAL POST: The cold air is here. Now how about some storms for the East? Here's the Forecast Model [JessePedia] hype.
You'll note that our Weather Headlines (PREMIUM | PRO) and Breaking Weather News Page (PREMIUM | PRO) have a lot of information about the potential for upcoming significant winter precipitation in the east.
The first chance is a storm system that will develop over the Carolinas tomorrow night. Although temperatures won't be cold enough over most of the area for it to be snow, it will drop some white stuff from the Hazzard Area [JessePedia] through the southwest mountains of Virginia. The models are pretty much in agreement with this, though the NAM thinks there will be snow on the back of the precipitation shield.
Next is a Nor'easter that will develop this weekend. The GFS keeps most of the heavy precip offshore...
But the NMM is more hopeful:
We're not sure yet whether or not it will be close enough to shore to affect the population areas of New England, but here's our current map.
Next week, another storm develops in the Southern Plains and moves towards the mid-Atlantic.
The GFS believes it will be primarily a mid-Atlantic event.
The DGEX? Even lower in latitudes.
The ECMWF (European) model, which I am not allowed to show here on my blog due to restrictions on commercial use, shows a swatch of snow from New Mexico (and about the size of that state) to western New England by January 23rd.
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