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IMHI, it really isn’t a Texas Blue Norther. That Euro cutoff partially pumps a ridge which locks all but the northern tier out of the cold during the first week of Dec. It is the Four Corners cutoff which drifts southwest into Baja and slowly runs out of steam…that is the pattern issue in my book. I am fine with a SW cutoff which eventually kicks out - pay me now or pay me later set up. The slow stall and drift into Baja is the thorn. The good thing is most ensembles get to the same EPO/PNA ridge setup by ~d14. The NAO(chuck mentions this in the MA) has gone poof, and the doesn’t push the BN heights as far south as originally prognosticated. The Weeklies are only half completed as I type. I see Jeff has posted. Gonna hit enter and read it.

Ok but if current ens guidance has the right idea, the combo of a +PNA/-EPO and a southward stretched TPV will begin to provide a mechanism for cold air transport southeastward for the first week to 10 days in Dec.. Beyond that there are hints of Scand ridging expanding into the NAO space- if that does happen and we end up with a -NAO, the cold will be in place underneath.

Deterministic models are pure chaos. Ensembles are flopping around but one can at least find some reasoning for that. After the Thanking cold a brief warmer episode is likely because of a little -PNA. However the Alaska ridge persists, so warmth probably won't. In fact by day 15 the EPS and somewhat GEFS hint at cross polar flow. Some support for return to cold mid-December, and perhaps lasting, comes from a retrograding Rossby wave. Since that's a 500mb feature we don't need to debate the SSW. Strato heights are well AN and want to reflect at 500mb. While I don't believe SSW wrecks cold patterns, it doesn't always favor North America. SSW signal is best for Eurasia. Things like the Rossby wave can turn odds for North America. The weekly charts may be picking up on all this. They go with the warmer week before settling into a colder regime with less back and forth. We'll see. Stuff changes every day. Who knows if all the background forecasts verify? At least the results make some sense this afternoon.

The SE Ridge is kinda like SEC Football. You hate to see it coming, and you know its probably going to win in the end.

Looks good.

Till we actually don’t crap the bed, I expect us to crap the bed lol

It's always seemed to me looking at the extended that we would cool down briefly after Thankgiving and then warm back up the first week of December then potentially turn much colder by the second week of December. There are some good signals. We shall see...

Hey maybe the PDO is tilting towards our favor?

Today’s Euro Weeklies 10 mb zonal wind mean is slightly weaker early and allows most to reverse unlike yesterday. However, afterwards it looks like yesterday’s significantly stronger run: Today’s: Yesterday’s: Two days ago: significantly weaker

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It is probably just picking up a weak signal from the Indo-pacific warm pool. I would be more worried about it if p8 was not propagating as a strong KW. Note the WWB associated with the P8 pass through, which is what we typically see with weakening Nina’s.

The fly in the ointment right now for the holidays is a lack of a -NAO. It's tough to get a big snowstorm without that feature to hold a storm closer to the coast. I'm not unhappy by any stretch of the imagination though...it beats Pacific Puke with 580dm heights across the entire CONUS!

The one bias we hope turns out to be the case here is the Euro holding energy back in the SW.

That was my worry when I alluded to SW Trough yesterday.

This may look like snow, but it's actually hail from a wild severe thunderstorm that hit West Phoenix in Arizona yesterday. This is the entrance ramp to I-10 from 83rd Ave.

The weeklies have gotten even colder and stormier.

Would rather get this out of the way early.

WB latest EPS weeklies centers the coldest period in December around the holidays now with normal precip. Maybe we will be able to do more than dream about a White Christmas this year. Definitely does not look like a torch right now around the holidays.

The 5 day forecast mean has a deeper trough in the West and stronger Southeast Ridge than the typical phase 7. That’s why I used the term elements or similarities. Still no change in the dominant storm track through the Great Lakes into early December.

WB latest 12Z EPS: temps average near normal/ slightly above through Dec 5. Precipitation looks like it will pick up toward the end of the period but nothing extreme. Looks like any big storms will track NW of the MA during this time frame with the NAO slightly positive and the PNA slightly negative.

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Yeah, I was thinking that run had some CC infused flavor to it. The southeast ridge was pumped up like a Nino December lol

LOL Looks like the quite a few members jumped the train today...lol

I mean really this is just a repeat of the start of our past La Nina winters for the past decade, including the model delay of cold air. What I am really interested in is this....With this shakeup on modeling, does it displace the entire pattern cycle by at least 7-10 days IMHO??? That may well leave us cold to start January - maybe.