21z SREF - WHOA BABY!

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21z SREF - WHOA BABY!

#1 Postby Stormsfury » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:39 am

Total QPF outputs from SREF ... something to digest on ... for the SE/MA Coastal regions ... but implies a decent hit in the Eastern Carolinas/ Southeastern VA...

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#2 Postby Erica » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:44 am

None of the members would really indicate anything northwest of the I-95 corridor, or in the Boston area.
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#3 Postby Wannabewxman79 » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:46 am

Hey, someone told me that in Jan 2000 that they had to quit using the normal operational models and use the SREF. Which was more useful. WHat is the difference between the op. mods. (ETA, GFS) and the SREF? I am new to this so please don't laugh.....
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#4 Postby NCWisher » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:47 am

Is the SREF and average of all of the model outputs?

I am still learning... :oops:
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#5 Postby Stormsfury » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:48 am

Wannabewxman79 wrote:Hey, someone told me that in Jan 2000 that they had to quit using the normal operational models and use the SREF. Which was more useful. WHat is the difference between the op. mods. (ETA, GFS) and the SREF? I am new to this so please don't laugh.....


January 25th, 2000 taught operational forecasters to use the SREF ...
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#6 Postby Anonymous » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:53 am

What does 300 imply for SE VA and NE NC? Is that 3 inches qpf, because if it is and its all snow............................





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#7 Postby wow » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:56 am

Jeb wrote:What does 300 imply for SE VA and NE NC? Is that 3 inches qpf, because if it is and its all snow............................





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That's 300 millimeters
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#8 Postby SacrydDreamz » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:59 am

I'll take ETA2 for $1000 Alex! :wink:
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#9 Postby Anonymous » Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:59 am

300 millimeters. Thanks. That's 30 centimeters then. 2.5 centimeters are roughly equal to an inch.

Whoa..............I MUST be way off here. Ten inches is completely, utterly out of control.

However 25 millimeters of qpf is 2.5 centimeters, which is one inch of qpf for Woodbridge VA. With the temps in the twenties that works out to a snow/water ratio of 15:1 which would be fifteen to seventeen inches of snow.

Okay that is interesting, but seriously I think the SREF is way way off and on some serious crack. Ten inch qpf's in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina?

I don't think so.


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