cheezyWXguy wrote:However, what I can’t seem to figure out is what the difference is between this event and a system like what happened in feb 2011 where moisture was very scarce, but it still managed to substantially overperform. Can anyone offer some insight into the differences?
Feb 2011 had a very different dynamic. That was your typical southwest cutoff ULL that kicked out from New Mexico/North Mexico. It drew up mid and upper moisture from the Pacific. At the same time it was the back-end storm, meaning warmer air was on it's way in out of the cold snap
Bubba said it best earlier, we lost a lot of the precious qpf to IP/graupel. Probably a warm layer that will have to go back and dig for
Here is an archived 500mb pattern for that event from the WPC from Feb 3rd, 2011