Monday, December 16, 2013

Models of a Snowstorm

Perhaps some of you more savvy worshipers of weather models have seen this before.

Since it has to do with our region and was a joint research project conducted by the NWS Louisville and Saint Louis University, I thought it would be a good read.

Unfortunately, the information is very technical. However, maps are provided as well; therefore, any of us non-technical people can download the current maps (for surface, 850mb temperatures, 300mb winds, and so forth) and compare them to the 'modeled' maps to see if we fall or will fall into one of the several types of models favoring a snowstorm.

And by the way, their estimation of a snowstorm counts as anything >=2", which may disappoint some of you. But, there was a map comparison of the January 1994 record snow and cold.

So, enjoy...

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/ResearchPapers/SnowComposites_OhioValley.pdf


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