Joel Wright
EF5
Well, normally I wouldn't post a thread about a clipper system here on ST, but since it's fairly early in the season, and the clipper seems to be fairly intense, I'll start one up.
Well, many of us are just catching our breath after this past weekend's onslaught of winter weather. Including ice and snow, and strong winds, power outages etc. The brief respite is over as a pretty strong little clipper will zip on southeast out of Canada tonight and tomorrow and lay down a stripe of accumulating snow from MN to KY by tomorrow night.
Although moisture starved, the strong dynamic lift and strength of the baroclinic boundary should provide a focal point for heavy snow along a line from Fargo ND, down to Minneapolis MN, to Platteville WI, towards the NIU campus in Dekalb IL, and into central IN by tomorrow night. The latest models seem to boost QPF outputs and indicate the potential for greater than 5" of snow in the main band. Some isolated amounts up to 7" would be possible, assuming snow ratios are above 13-15:1. These amounts may seem fairly unimpressive, but considering they're being delivered from an Alberta Clipper type system originating in the NW flow regime they're relatively impressive.
It will be sort of interesting to watch as the system emerges out of Canada over the next 12 hours...
Well, many of us are just catching our breath after this past weekend's onslaught of winter weather. Including ice and snow, and strong winds, power outages etc. The brief respite is over as a pretty strong little clipper will zip on southeast out of Canada tonight and tomorrow and lay down a stripe of accumulating snow from MN to KY by tomorrow night.
Although moisture starved, the strong dynamic lift and strength of the baroclinic boundary should provide a focal point for heavy snow along a line from Fargo ND, down to Minneapolis MN, to Platteville WI, towards the NIU campus in Dekalb IL, and into central IN by tomorrow night. The latest models seem to boost QPF outputs and indicate the potential for greater than 5" of snow in the main band. Some isolated amounts up to 7" would be possible, assuming snow ratios are above 13-15:1. These amounts may seem fairly unimpressive, but considering they're being delivered from an Alberta Clipper type system originating in the NW flow regime they're relatively impressive.
It will be sort of interesting to watch as the system emerges out of Canada over the next 12 hours...