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scottie33

scottie33

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Weather guru's...what's the outlook for winter weather this weekend?

Earl's charts are coming back in good agreement along the I-80 corridor through Iowa.

And there is NOT a Men's BB home game on Saturday, how'd that work out?
 
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Earl's models seem to have been bouncing around a lot
 
scottie33

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it seemed like the NAM jumped today as its on a 72 hour model which as of last night would've stretched to Friday night...that may be the case
 
scottie33

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meteogram generator looks like it only graphs out 72 hours on the red and pink lines as well...the blues are I think 120 hours out for model range
 
FDWxMan

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scottie33 said:
Weather guru's...what's the outlook for winter weather this weekend?

Earl's charts are coming back in good agreement along the I-80 corridor through Iowa.

And there is NOT a Men's BB home game on Saturday, how'd that work out?
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Could be looking at 2" or more of "rain equivalent" in some spots. Just have to figure out how much to split between rain and snow, and how much snow:water ratio will be.

I think it will be a heavier, wet snow attm, figure around 10 or 12:1 snow ratio, which normally would keep snow totals more in check, but there's just a lot of moisture and a slow moving storm that could blow that theory up.

As others have said, NAM has started coming in much more aggressive than I am figuring right now, but I will need to see more consistency.

I don't really want to be too specific with totals yet, but I am definitely leaning toward maybe some of the highest we've had this season at least over western IA or NW 1/3.
 
scottie33

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FDWxMan said:
Could be looking at 2" or more of "rain equivalent" in some spots. Just have to figure out how much to split between rain and snow, and how much snow:water ratio will be.

I think it will be a heavier, wet snow attm, figure around 10 or 12:1 snow ratio, which normally would keep snow totals more in check, but there's just a lot of moisture and a slow moving storm that could blow that theory up.

As others have said, NAM has started coming in much more aggressive than I am figuring right now, but I will need to see more consistency.

I don't really want to be too specific with totals yet, but I am definitely leaning toward maybe some of the highest we've had this season at least over western IA or NW 1/3.
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Looks like the models keep trending to the Northwest.
 
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So...should I be thinking about cancelling my travel plans for this weekend? (planning on heading back to SW IA for the weekend and coming back up to Ames Sunday)
 
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