678  
FXUS10 KWNH 121635  
PMDHMD  
 
MODEL DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION  
NWS WEATHER PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD  
1234 PM EDT SAT OCT 12 2019  
 
VALID OCT 12/1200 UTC THRU OCT 16/0000 UTC  
 
...SEE NOUS42 KWNO (ADMNFD) FOR THE STATUS OF THE UPPER AIR  
INGEST...  
 
12Z FINAL MODEL EVALUATION WITH LATEST PREFERENCES AND CONFIDENCE  
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DEEP PLAINS/UPPER MIDWEST CYCLONE  
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
PREFERENCE: GENERAL MODEL BLEND  
CONFIDENCE: ABOVE AVERAGE  
 
THE ANOMALOUSLY DEEP LAYER CYCLONE OVER THE NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.  
WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN AS IT LIFTS NORTH/NORTHEAST INTO CANADA OVER  
THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL GRADUALLY  
SWEEP ACROSS THE EASTERN U.S. BUT IS FORECAST TO STALL/LINGER OVER  
THE DEEP SOUTH INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE MODELS REMAIN WELL  
CLUSTERED WITH THE EVOLUTION OF THIS SYSTEM IN THE NEXT 3 DAYS. A  
GENERAL MODEL BLEND IS PREFERRED.  
 
PACIFIC NORTHWEST TO THE NORTHERN PLAINS  
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PREFERENCE: GENERAL MODEL BLEND  
CONFIDENCE: ABOVE AVERAGE  
 
A QUICK MOVING SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL DROP DOWN THROUGH THE  
CANADIAN ROCKIES AND INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES DAY 2/3, INDUCING  
SURFACE CYCLOGENESIS ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST. THE DETERMINISTIC  
GLOBAL MODELS ARE FAIRLY ALIGNED WITH THE ENSEMBLE MEANS, SO  
OVERALL THERE IS ABOVE AVERAGE FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND A GENERAL  
MODEL BLEND IS PREFERRED.  
 
SOUTHWESTERN U.S. TO FOUR CORNERS REGION  
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PREFERENCE: ECMWF/UKMET/CMC THROUGH 48 HOURS; ECENS/GEFS MEANS DAY  
3  
CONFIDENCE: AVERAGE  
 
TROUGHING MOVING THROUGH THE WESTERN US WILL EVENTUALLY PINCH OFF  
A SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EARLY  
MONDAY. THE NON-NCEP GUIDANCE (ECMWF/UKMET/CMC) ARE NOTABLY MORE  
AMPLIFIED WITH THIS FEATURE COMPARED TO THE GFS AND NAM SOLUTIONS.  
AS THE WAVE MOVES FROM THE SOUTHWEST U.S. TOWARD THE FOUR CORNERS  
AND CENTRAL ROCKIES REGIONS, THE GFS AND NAM ARE CONSIDERABLY  
FASTER/FLATTER WITH THE UPPER LEVEL ENERGY. LOOKING AT THE  
ENSEMBLE MEMBERS AND MEANS, THAT SCENARIO IS NOT COMPLETELY  
UNREASONABLE AND IN FACT, THE DETERMINISTIC ECWMF IS MUCH SLOWER  
COMPARED TO ITS ENSEMBLE MEAN (AND SIMILAR TO THE GEFS MEAN AS  
WELL). SO, WILL PREFER A BLEND OF THE ECMWF/UKMET/CMC INITIALLY  
(THROUGH 48 HOURS) BUT FOR DAY 3 HAVE A BLEND OF THE ECENS/GEFS  
MEAN, WHICH WILL BE NEAR THE OVERALL MODEL CONSENSUS.  
 
MODEL TRENDS AT WWW.WPC.NOAA.GOV/HTML/MODEL2.HTML  
500 MB FORECASTS AT WWW.WPC.NOAA.GOV/H5PREF/H5PREF.SHTML  
 
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