Evolution of a Surprise Snowfall in the United States Midwest

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On Friday, 10 December 1982, a modest, yet unforecasted snowfall occurred in a band extending from the Ohio valley states eastward to western New York State. Aside from this case study representing a crucial forecasting problem, the scientific issues suggested by the results of this examination are especially intriguing. The precipitation was associated with neither a surface cyclone nor an obvious surface front. Although the precipitation began in the vicinity of quasi-geostrophic ascent, the details of the precipitation pattern are better explained by the atmosphere's susceptibility to moist slantwise convection. Additionally, the ascent associated with this precipitation event during its later stages in Illinois was pan of an elevated thermally direct frontal circulation. The relatively strong ascent on the warm side of this frontal circulation was likely assisted by the low moist symmetric instability in the same region. The synoptic-scale flow pattern played a role in the evolution of this p... Abstract On Friday, 10 December 1982, a modest, yet unforecasted snowfall occurred in a band extending from the Ohio valley states eastward to western New York State. Aside from this case study representing a crucial forecasting problem, the scientific issues suggested by the results of this examination are especially intriguing. The precipitation was associated with neither a surface cyclone nor an obvious surface front. Although the precipitation began in the vicinity of quasi-geostrophic ascent, the details of the precipitation pattern are better explained by the atmosphere's susceptibility to moist slantwise convection. Additionally, the ascent associated with this precipitation event during its later stages in Illinois was pan of an elevated thermally direct frontal circulation. The relatively strong ascent on the warm side of this frontal circulation was likely assisted by the low moist symmetric instability in the same region. The synoptic-scale flow pattern played a role in the evolution of this p...

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