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Just for fun and to relieve the tension appearing in the model threads I thought it would be cool to devise a SNOWCON scale of model watching and readiness for impending cold weather. A bit like DEFCON but for snow rather than impending nuclear destruction.
It is on a scale of 1-10 with a few 10+’s thrown in for fun. I’d personally like to get to 9-10 at some point this winter as I’m sure a lot of you would too, but I think even SNOWCON 10+++ would have the most hardened coldie praying for a return of the jetstream!
As I said, just a bit of fun, perhaps you have your own version you wish to post? Currently I think we stand at SNOWCON 3 maybe 4 if the 06z plays ball...
0. No cold appearing in any part of the models.
1. Cold weather occasionally appearing in the depths of FI in one or 2 of the models. Disappears come the next run.
2. Cold weather occasionally appears in FI, verified by another model or appears again in the next run. Disappears thereafter.
3. Cold weather consistently appears in FI from one run to the next in various guises but is still out in FI land.
4. Cold weather scenario has entered the reliable timeframe. People begin to look at precipitation charts even though it’s far too early to reliably gauge snowfall amounts or location. People begin to ask "will it snow in….?"
5. Cold weather scenario is 3 days away on the models, people are looking at precipitation charts to see if it will snow and by how much, even though it’s still out of the reliable time frame for precipitation!
6. Proper cold starts tomorrow! How long will it last?? How much and where? All can be fairly well predicted on a regional level.
7. I can see showers on the radar, snow reports are coming in upwind.
8. OH MY GOD it’s SNOWING!!
9. Transport network failures, general disruption, some schools close etc etc
10. Severe cold spell, widespread disruption, business closures as well as schools, impossible to travel.
10+. Emergency situation, air lifting of food supplies to cut off rural areas, martial law imposed, morgues full of the unburied dead.
10++. New ice age, society as we know it ends.
Edited by Azores Hi, 10 January 2012 - 13:28 .
