Let's begin with the state of winter right now. Where is it? Recent reports say Russia has found it (http://rt.com/news/r...emperature-379/). In other news, the planetary reconfiguration that is occurring right now. Major ridging burgeoning from the Aleutians to the Bering Strait and right up over the North Pole by Saturday. The effect? Well at 22/00z that's 125kts at the DT crossing the NP toward the western hemisphere. Clear at this stage the magnitude of nonlinear processes leading to an