South Texas Storms wrote:Ntxw wrote:South Texas Storms wrote:
The ICON is far from the worst global model, in my opinion. It handled the tropical cyclone threats to TX very well, if not the best, of the globals last summer. It also typically has a good handle on temperatures, with no well known cold or hot bias.
I've felt it does well regarding situations where the surface plays a lead role, cold, lower level features etc. at 500mb it's had questionable fairly late shifts even with this current event, and some others the past couple of seasons. No model is perfect just have to know and account for each's strengths and weakness.
Yep that's why taking a blended model approach typically works best when making a forecast. The NBM model does a good job and that's why it's the NWS model of choice.
And with things firing off on here so fast what's the latest NBM say?