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Interesting Thanksgiving Clipper

#1 Postby DS » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:01 pm

A clipper coming down over the Canadian rockies will drop south through the Tennessee valley and into the southern mid-Atlantic will have interesting precipitation with it. Several models including the GFS, ETA (Nam) and the European are indicating thicknesses cold enough for snow all the way towards the I-40 corridor of North Carolina. There is a decent chance that anyone from Kentucky to the Virginia coast could see a coating of snow on Thanksgiving morning. This is quite unusual as it is usually strange to see white Christmas this far south.

GFS: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/18/images/gfs_p06_084m.gif
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#2 Postby brunota2003 » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:32 pm

Interesting, what about me here in Havelock, NC??? I live between New Bern and Morehead City, do I even stand a chance at getting anything??? :P :D 8-)
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#3 Postby beachbum_al » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:33 pm

Well I guess this might mean that my sil and bil will not make it to Georgia form NC. :cry: I really wanted to see them.
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#4 Postby carve » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:30 am

Local mets here in ohio say we could see a couple of inches of snow by thanksgiving.
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#5 Postby Lowpressure » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:34 pm

NWS here in Charlotte bouncing around abit with moisture with this system this far south. Critical heights will be a little more south than I think model shows, moisture how far south is key here. You seem accurate with the I-40 line.
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#6 Postby Skywatch_NC » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:13 pm

beachbum_al wrote:Well I guess this might mean that my sil and bil will not make it to Georgia form NC. :cry: I really wanted to see them.


Models can always change for the better regarding holiday traveling. :)
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#7 Postby DS » Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:51 pm

Actually, looking over new model data, I'm thinking the snow will be no farther south than south VA (Lynchburg, maybe Danville). North Carolina will have a SW low level flow that will limit anything to a mostly rain/ some flurries mix. Definitely no accumulation farther south than Lynchburg or Richmond. I should've caught that- the models always scoot these clippers too far south in early winter and too far north in late winter.
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