• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

An Interesting Model Run (Midwest Next Week)

Okay, I'm sitting here with over 10" of snow on the ground, with temps about to go below zero for the next two nights. It'd be an incredible turnaround to say the least for us to be pushing 60 with a potential severe weather episode 5 days later, which is what the 12z GFS shows. Man that'd be freaking awesome though.

I can't wait to see how the models evolve over the next few days...
 
Okay, I'm sitting here with over 10" of snow on the ground, with temps about to go below zero for the next two nights. It'd be an incredible turnaround to say the least for us to be pushing 60 with a potential severe weather episode 5 days later, which is what the 12z GFS shows. Man that'd be freaking awesome though.

I can't wait to see how the models evolve over the next few days...


Well I guess I'll quote myself. It has been an amazing turnaround. We've reached record temps already today. Nearing 60 already. 10" of snow was on the ground early friday morning. 48hrs later it's almost completely gone, except for the huge piles scattered around. What an incredible change in airmass over such a short time. Even looking at the real possibility of chasing tomorrow afternoon. (See the forecast thread).

You gotta love January thaws! :-)
 
I have to say that I've been pretty impressed with the relative lack of variability in the way the GFS has handled this system, from the first 240 hr run. On New Year's Day, I saved a screen shot of the 850 mb winds for 0Z WED, thinking of how ridiculous it looked (60+ knots over much of AR), and with the idea that I'd use this as my example for this year of why I will not allow myself to become too infatuated with long-range runs. With the exception of the timing being bumped ahead by about 18 hrs, here I sit, 5 days later, looking at 60 knots over AR on the 6Z TUE 850 mb winds. I might be ruined for the year!
 
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