Session 13A Winter Weather Forecasting: Snow-Liquid-Ratio and Freezing Rain

Thursday, 16 January 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs:
Austin A. Coleman and Stephen W. Bieda III, PhD, NWS, WFO Amarillo, Amarillo, TX

Papers:
8:30 AM
13A.1
Predicting Snow-to-Liquid Ratio over the Western United States
Peter Veals, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. D. Pletcher, J. Steenburgh, and A. J. Schwartz

8:45 AM
13A.2
Snow-to-liquid ratio prediction over the contiguous United States using machine learning
Michael David Pletcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. Veals, S. Hilberg, N. Newman, A. A. Rosenow, PhD, J. Steenburgh, and R. Chase

9:00 AM
13A.3
Snow-to-Liquid Ratios in the Upper Great Lakes: Regime Dependency and Nowcasting Applications
Kyla Wolski, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and M. S. Kulie, C. Pettersen, and S. W. Nesbitt

9:30 AM
13A.5
An Evaluation of Freezing Rain Local Storm Reports and Their Uses
Adam David Werkema, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) at NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves

9:45 AM
13A.6
Evaluating Tools for Diagnosis and Nowcasting Precipitation Type and Freezing Rain: Results from the 3–4 February 2022 Winter Storm in the Hudson Valley
Justin R Minder, Univ. at Albany, Albany, NY; and B. Stutsrim, C. Speciale, T. A. Wasula, B. Filipiak, B. Shrestha, J. Wang, N. P. Bassill, H. D. Reeves, D. D. Tripp, D. Thompson, N. Stuart, and M. Evans

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