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Looks like DVN canceled the winter storm warning. 90+% of the warning area received a trace or not a flake.

Yeah better run for the region.

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You have been wrong all December.

ENSO thread has transitioned to last rites, Philly is transitioning to last rites, Our med/long range thread is transitioning to last rites, NYC is hanging by a thread, NE isn't far behind.

We take.

No sooner had I said that than thunder boomed. TIMs activated. Of course this may end as snow flakes towards morning.

Gfs is still showing some snow for 23

The projected cold weather between Christmas and new years is quickly slipping away. Hopefully we can get a pattern reset in early January akin to January 2024 because that shook things up quite a bit and prevented a January-March 2023 repeat with an eastern ridge. Something will have to give at some point, or that’s quite the headfake the models were throwing at us

I think you’re right. You should probably sign off until then.

Gfs solid for the 23-24

It just seems like the central US ridge has strengthened as we get closer to the date. Around a week ago, we knew there would be warmth across much of conus. But this record breaking warmth for much of south and central US appears to have creeped up on us, and the duration of it seems to extend past Christmas now. I think we’ll need a jet extension (I know how much we hate those) to push storminess ashore and get some storms moving throuhh CONUS. I’d rather take my chances with stormy weather and hope there’s a well timed cold air injection than to have wall to wall torch with the only winter weather being north of the border. Doesn’t get much worse than this

Honestly there's no chance until next month based off of what I've been seeing.

Talk about a turnaround! After one day of glee and bigtime celebration due to our immense accomplishment of getting phase 8 back, it’s already gone. The MJO moved into phase 7 two days ago. Turn out the lights, the party’s over (well as of two days ago at least).

Potential dusting/snow tv on the 23rd on the GFS. That window hasn't really lived up to my interest in it, as the heights to our west just became too hostile for something to really develop even though we still managed to scrape some cold out of the situation. But flakes would be nice.

That like blitzed through here. No thunder but incredible wind and heavy rain.

This is the right question. Last year was prototyping. This year is massive telemetry gathering. Next year is tuning in response to those telemetrics. The one caveat is that observability is nascent so the value of the telemetry gathering is low but sharply increasing. So, the quality of that observability will (is) increasing exponentially, ferreting out bias, low value feedback and creating a positive feedback loop of increasing telemetry quality / observability of high-value output / input (retraining) back into the LLM’s and SLM’s.

Wow thanks for putting that together. Combining depth days and snow cover is a great way to look at it. 18/19 really does stick out. I recall the storms that November being a bit warmer and putting down a few feet of dense snow that really opened the whole mountain up. So I agree with Tony that it was a more impressive start than this one in some ways. While I think this early season has been special for all the reasons I mentioned earlier, it’s great to have those numbers to confirm that we aren’t really in uncharted waters here. Just in very good company with some of the better winters in the last 20 years. And wow is it always incredible to see how terrible 15/16 was.

It feels awesome outside. MPING reports show shingle damage near Harriman and Decatur

I mean January is 2 weeks away, prime climo window starts in 4 weeks. Could it turn around by then and the models won't pick up on it until it's closer?

Eff the PNA....can I get an amen?

Still have about 1.5" of crust on the ground here....all a dream tomorrow.

It’s awful. Good people doing important work pilloried due to nonsense.

Quite the eventful weather day, we lost a good amount of snowpack from the combination of high dews, warm overnight temps and a bit of rain. Was 39F when I left for work at 6am. Temps came crashing down mid/late morning and haven’t stopped falling. Snow showers moved through this afternoon and put down around an inch, although with all the blowing it’s impossible to tell. Winds gusting between 35-40mph with the snow. Clearing now and 7F with blowing snow.

Was always obvious the second half of Dec would be a CONUS-wide blowtorch, unless if you have no pattern recognition ability whatsoever.