• 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.

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    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.

Convective Snow Outlooks: interesting

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Check this out! I don't know how many people here have seen this site or not, but I assume that since it isn't talked about at all, that it is either BS or not well known. And it doesn't look like BS.

Anywho, meteorologists at Missouri State are researching and attempting to forecast convective snows. They even have an SPC-style outlook map to go with it. As you can see, there is an area highlighted for possible convective snows today. If the area was shaded, it would be likely.

http://weather.missouri.edu/ROCS/forecasts.html
 
Ok, I gotta bump this thread at least once, lol. I don't want it to fade into the archives without some discussion on it.

In winter, you usually don't have very much CAPE, so any convection must be caused by some strong forcing into what little elevated instability there is.

The nowcasting maps forecast Three-dimensional EPV and sigma growth rates.

http://weather.missouri.edu/ROCS/papers.html

There are lots of references and articles here, but many of them are in abstract form.
 
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