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Melissa Moon
11-28-2007, 09:20 AM
I remember that in my Synoptic class, my professor gave us this really handy "checklist"-like thing to help us with forecasting winter weather. I went looking on the net to see if I could find anything that concisely explained a lot of the stuff that we learned about forecasting winter wx, and I found this powerpoint that explains some concepts:

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/snow2a/

I also found this "checklist" on the Springfield WFO page:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=winter_checklist_paper

Finally, here's the link to a paper that interested me because it deals with the challenges of forecasting winter wx along the east coast:

http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0434/10/1/pdf/i1520-0434-10-1-5.pdf

And here's a related paper I found that was especially interesting because it deals specifically with winter weather in the Appalachians:

http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0434/10/1/pdf/i1520-0434-10-1-42.pdf

Post any useful winter wx forecasting links that you have come across...

mikegeukes
11-28-2007, 09:05 PM
Lake Effect Snow:
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/visit/les/title.asp
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/visit/les2/title.asp
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/class/smfaculty/byrd/faculty98w.ppt

Mike

Jeff Miller
11-28-2007, 09:29 PM
Snowfall Accumulation Potential:

http://wxcaster.com/regional_snowfall.htm

Any chance we can sticky this?

Dan Robinson
11-28-2007, 10:21 PM
HPC Winter Weather forecasts:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wwd/winter_wx.shtml

mikegeukes
11-28-2007, 11:13 PM
An Operational Ingredients-Based Methodology
for Forecasting Winter Season MidLatitude Precipitation

http://speedy.meteor.wisc.edu/~swetzel/winter/winter.html

Haby Hints:
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/winterwx/

MetEd:
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/topics_winterwx.php

Traditional Forecast Methods:
http://speedy.meteor.wisc.edu/~swetzel/winter/methods.html

Forecasting Snow Amounts:
http://wxman256.home.att.net/fcst/wf-pt8c.html

Mike Geukes:
now living in Lansing, Michigan, no longer in Norman, Oklahoma

mikegeukes
11-28-2007, 11:20 PM
Research on Convective Snows:
http://weather.missouri.edu/ROCS/ROCS.html

Mike

Howard Robinson
12-06-2007, 06:53 PM
Do you mind if I put these links on a webpage for everyone to use, with credit given to everyone who posted the links?