Saturday, October 08, 2011

Hope dwindles for a mid-October chase

The upcoming coastal low pressure originally appeared to have a chance of tracking west of Virginia, which would have situated the Old Dominion firmly in the warm sector (or in the right front quadrant of a tropical system) and providing impetus for some convection. Per the above forecast graphic it now seems that next week's event will be strictly rain - and lots of it - from an autumn nor'easter.
I still won't declare an end to the Virginia chase season until my empirically derived Veterans' Day cutoff, but the potential for another 2011 chase is dwindling.

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