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5 hours ago, MaineJay said:

Need that lobe in Hudson Bay to rotate further south and really dig in.  It's more encouraging seeing a little window for Arctic involvement.  Only a possibility, but better then it not being possible.

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Appears arctic inolvement happening on 18z GFS. It's bombing out.

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I finally had an opportunity to look over the 12z and 18z runs today.. First takeaway, the ECMWF and GDPS were rough lol.. Sure hope this doesn’t become a cutter. Second takeaway, the 18z GFS was close to mixing in the arctic injection from the NW. Just a little late. Storm signal remains.. which is good. Hopefully the narrative becomes more white than wet. As @so_whats_happening said earlier, hope we get this look in January and February. 
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Also.. in terms of the ensembles.. what’s with the GEFS? Further to the SE than the EPS and CMCE. The EPS looked the best to me. I think the theme is.. there’s a long way to go and a lot to be decided. 
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4 hours ago, Penn State said:

Euro was late.. but late enough that it almost caught an injection of cold air. The cutoff down south just meanders for quite some time. Long way to go here. 
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  There appears to be two impulses that *could* catch it, but they are just ships passing in the night on this run.

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Honestly.. a number of signs are pointing in the wrong direction. The Pacific Jet and +EPO just doesn’t want to unlock the arctic air. The MJO looks to be stalling. So, this is probably not going to be anything special. With that being said, 00z GFS was a little closer with the cold air injection. It’s not enough.. too little, too late. Here’s the last few runs of the GFS.

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3 minutes ago, Pghsnow said:

CMC also brings back the storm. Too bad neither has cold available. So it's all rain for both. 

For now at least.. FWIW, it's not as far apart as one would think. You can see it on the 500mb.. I imagine if the energy in Canada would dig some more, that's all that would be necessary to deliver enough cold for at least higher elevations. Even if you look at the 2m temps.. it's like mid-30s. Wouldn't that just be awful though.. sitting a few degrees from freezing watching 2-3" of liquid precip that could have been snow. 

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26 minutes ago, Penn State said:

For now at least.. FWIW, it's not as far apart as one would think. You can see it on the 500mb.. I imagine if the energy in Canada would dig some more, that's all that would be necessary to deliver enough cold for at least higher elevations. Even if you look at the 2m temps.. it's like mid-30s. Wouldn't that just be awful though.. sitting a few degrees from freezing watching 2-3" of liquid precip that could have been snow. 

There have been far larger leaps than this in model land in 7 days....

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Looking at the AI models over at the ECMWF page.

Pangu takes the low through FL, then stalls it off the coast and weakens it

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Graphcast puts it into Maritimes

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Fourcast stalls it like Pangu.  I'm guessing these just go out to sea.

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AIFS brings it the closest and also hits the Maritimes

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