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lol - the Nats are beating the A's 23-2 in the 9th.

...Days 4-6/Mon-Wed -- Great Lakes/Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast... A shortwave upper trough initially over the Canadian Prairies and northern Plains will develop east/southeast across the Upper Midwest/Great Lakes on Monday, then the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic vicinity on Tuesday. Meanwhile, another upper shortwave trough will develop across the Great Lakes to the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic on Wednesday. These features will support enhancement of mid/upper level flow as a surface low tracks across Ontario/Quebec and New England during this time. A trailing cold front will likewise progress east/southeast over this three day period, with a very moist and unstable airmass present ahead of the front. This overall pattern will likely bring multiple days of severe storm potential from the Upper Midwest/Great Lakes to portions of the Ohio Valley, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic vicinity Monday through Wednesday, necessitating severe probabilities. While these areas may shift some over the coming day as the timing of mesoscale features and influence of prior days convection becomes more clear, these general regions are most likely to see at least isolated to widely scattered damaging wind potential as the upper trough and surface cold front sweep across the area.

The timing on tonight's HRRR and NAM3km is around 2 to 4 in the afternoon, and they really hammer us with a big line of strong storms. I'm looking forward to big storms with heavy rain, but hopefully it won't be so severe that there's a lot of damage. Obviously the potential for that is there though.

Interesting how dry it is off the SE coast and Gulf. Tropics look shutdown for the time being.

Just saw my first back-to-school commercial from Kohl’s. Better get your Halloween candy before the shelves are empty.

These are your y/y changes in 27.0C DJFs in Nino 3.4 winters. I've also found this to be essentially four real patterns: Cold South/Warm North, Cold SW/NE, Cool East/Warm West, Cold East/Mild West. El Nino Y/Y Change Nino 3.4 1951 +1.3 1953 +0.4 1957 +2.0 1958 -1.2 1963 +1.5 1965 +2.0 1968 +1.7 1969 -0.6 1972 +2.5 1976 +2.3 1977 +0.0 1982 +2.2 1986 +1.7 1987 -0.4 1991 +1.3 1994 +0.9 1997 +2.7 2002 +1.0 2004 +0.2 2006 +1.6 2009 +2.3 2014 +1.0 2015 +1.9 2018 +1.7 2019: -0.3 2023 +2.4 2026 +3.1? Look at the signals - +2.0C gain or more: 1957, 1965, 1972, 1976, 1982, 1997, 2009, 2023 +1.0C to +1.99C gain: 1951, 1963, 1968, 1986, 1991, 2002, 2006, 2014, 2015, 2018 +0.0C to +0.99C gain: 1953, 1977, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2014 <0.0C gain: 1958, 1969, 1977, 1987, 2019 Big Gain El Ninos (2.0C or greater warmer y/y in Dec-Feb). Coldest Southeast US. Average Gain El Ninos (1-2C warmer y/y Dec-Feb). Coldest SW & NE US. Small Gain El Ninos (0-1C warmer y/y Dec-Feb). +PDO driven / cold East & warm West. Small Loss El Ninos (0-1C colder y/y Dec-Feb than prior El Nino, but still El Nino). All pretty severe Eastern winters, except 2019-20.

NGL for a minute I thought it was your backyard in Stephens City before looking closer.

same - just walked to meet a few friends for a drink, i didn't really smell anything. still VERY hazy though.

My local indicators based on Summer don't support full-on idealized El Nino conditions locally. I have two approaches for that: Low Solar + ENSO Prior + ENSO Current. So ideal is a) solar minimum plus b) big La Nina in prior winter c) big El Nino in current winter. Factors B/C are relational - cold winters here are directly correlated to the biggest warm-ups y/y in Nino 3.4. 2023-2024 was a notable failure - although that's likely due to both high solar and the strong -PDO offsetting a strong y/y warm up to some extent (Nino 3.4 warmed +2.4C from 2022-23 to 2023-24 in Nino 3.4, v. +1.7C from 2017-18 to 2018-19, but 2018-19 had low solar, and a neutral PDO. So with solar/PDO more favorable 2018-19 was much colder than 2023-24 even though 2023-24 was stronger.) 2018-19 netted out to about 2.2F colder than the 1991-2020 average high, while 2023-24 was 1.1 warmer than that 1991-2020 average high. For 2026-27, you have potentially: +3.5C in Nino 3.4 (biggest gain on record, call it -0.4C to +3.1C in DJF y/y) High Solar (75-100 sunspots for July 2026-June 2027) So I'd expect temps colder than 2023-24 locally as both the SST gain and solar conditions are better, especially with the -PDO looking weaker. The biggest misses on this image are also tied to volcano influenced El Ninos (1963-64 Agung is the big cold miss, 1994-95 is the big warm miss (54F) and then 2023-24 (Tonga?). Low solar is more directly correlated to lower lows and less rain/snow here, but it tends to indirectly make highs colder too (El Ninos starting 1963, 1965, 1976, 1986, 1997, 2006, 2009, 2018 are all low solar and very cold here). My other indicator is Summer conditions. Snowy winters tend to follow Summers that are cold in June-Sept, El Nino, with a wet Monsoon, and three years or more since above average snow. Right now, we're on track for: Hot June (-) / Hot July (-) / Mild/Hot Aug (= or -) /Mild/Hot Sep (= or -) Dry Monsoon (-) /El Nino (+) / ENSO + Monsoon (=) / Duration since big Winter (+) The monsoon could still flip. But I doubt we get a cold Aug AND Sept. Best case: There was a signal in the data locally, hottest Marches on record tend to precede cold August unusually often. Same for extreme -WPO/+NAO Marches. That would need to coincide with a wet month. So - Good (El Nino, Wet Monsoon, ENSO + Monsoon, Aug Cold, Duration since big winter) Neutral (Hot Sept) Bad (Hot Jun, Hot July) Nets Out to ~10 inches of snow based on my historical testing, and that'd be accurate within 4 inches of snow in 70%+ of all cases. I need to dig out some of my older research. I have it on a blue thumb drive somewhere.

Model is trash

Oh crazy, if got smoky but they predicted it.

Massive win.

You can really see it in the SOI over the last 30 years. We are breaking it hard now however, but if the N. Pacific Hadley Cell was +SOI driven it should be reversing around now and that has not happened yet but it is mid-warm season Streak of the last 30 years really makes the current -26 30-day that much more impressive. I think I calculated something like 72% of months were +SOI since 1998.

The wet paste low ratio dense snow is the prettiest looking. It clings to everything and whitens everything up better.

Yeah smell is much reduced. Could see 1 star in the sky

The lack of H5 over the central equatorial pacific does indicate a skew towards La Niña the last 20-30 years, which could also be contributing. I don’t have the research handy, but climate models argue that more frequent La Niña will not be the case long term. Possibly a temporarily aberration the past couple of decades. We are probably due for a major decadal regression the other way. Not necessarily right now, but it could happen eventually.

Damage in Tolland? I'll post it in DIT format.

Orangey tint to the crescent moon tonight. Still some smoke up there.

Definitely a hot one today. got to a high of 101.2* at 15:34. Heat Index had to be around 115* or so. Looks like some good chances of rain the next few days.

It still looks smoky, and the purple air numbers are still solidly high, but on my walk this evening, all I smell is weed. Kind of normal.

Just a light haze now, but sooo nice having the windows open.

Automatic sprinklers going, spraying the sidewalk in front of an office building in Merrifield. Complete waste of water, and renders the sidewalk impassible. Does anyone really give a good goddamn if the grass next to the sidewalk is green or brown? I want a nationwide ban on watering anything that isn't A. cash crops, B. subsistence crops, or C. animal fodder. If you don't like seeing brown grass, then tear it out and plant cactus and creosote. FFS.