January 2024 Forecasts and Discussions

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Re: January 2024 Forecasts and Discussions

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Catnip wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:39 am Certainly the all or nothing type crowd down there.

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Nice improvement on the GFS ensembles @12z.
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PortKells wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:33 am The GEM has a warm bias too. I'm pretty encouraged by this. The GFS is waffling, more news at 6. The Euro would be nice to have on board today but there's still time.
I wouldn't put much stock in what the GFS says unless the Euro continues to trend towards it in the next few days.
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Re: January 2024 Forecasts and Discussions

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Catnip wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:42 am Nice improvement on the GFS ensembles @12z.
Both the mean and the operational 850’s reach -8˚C or colder in about a week.
It's called clown range for a reason.
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Rubus_Leucodermis wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:00 am I haven’t told any of my friends anything yet, except to be skeptical of any snowflakes on smartphone apps, since forecasting that far out has lousy accuracy.
I hope you used your favourite saying at least. “Clown range”
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PortKells wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:37 am When was the last truly historic blast anyways? 1969?

the 2020's have been absolutely impressive when you consider the ****ed climate. I'm not going to complain if something isn't historic. Getting winter in general is good enough for me.
Possibly December 1990. If not, then February 1989, or November 1985 for sure.
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Toss the Op. out.
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PortKells wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:37 am When was the last truly historic blast anyways? 1969?

the 2020's have been absolutely impressive when you consider the ****ed climate. I'm not going to complain if something isn't historic. Getting winter in general is good enough for me.
Probably depends on your definition of “Historic”
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Typeing3 wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:02 am Possibly December 1990. If not, then February 1989, or November 1985 for sure.
100% agree with November 1985 no matter what metric you want to use.
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Haven't seen Monty's favorite model post recently.
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There’s an AI model based on the Euro called the Graphcast that is supposed to be really good. I don’t have access to it though.
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GEM ensembles @ Thursday am
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Bonovox wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:06 am There’s an AI model based on the Euro called the Graphcast that is supposed to be really good. I don’t have access to it though.
Snow Wizard post it a couple of times
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Gem ensembles @ Monday (Jan 15) am

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And going waaaay out there...

GEM ensembles for Jan 19
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