Need a professional met's opinion

weatherlover427 · #1 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:59 pm

How believable is the 9 day (216 hour) GFS? If it's any good then I may be getting the remnants of a tropical system the end of next week...

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod ... 6_216l.gif

hurricanedude · #2 Postby **hurricanedude** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:03 pm

not unheard of for southern cali to get remnant lows from tropical systems...so its quite possible

weatherlover427 · #3 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:05 pm

It's been showing this feature consistently now (since it was way back at about day 12-13 or so). So it may be on to something...

#4 Postby **Aslkahuna** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:53 pm

During the 0-7 day period, the GFS performs poorly after that it's not worth looking at.

Steve

TS Zack · #5 Postby **TS Zack** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:56 pm

weatherlover427 · #6 Postby **weatherlover427** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:11 am

That's the 384 hour version. About as unbelievable as a certain person who we should all know about...

#7 Postby **alicia-w** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:10 am

On the 500mb chart, what does the legend mean, i.e. the colors and associated numbers on the left?

Thanks