Here's another issue. This ridge is at least partly due to a hostile Pacific pumping in warm air and boosting those heights. If you truly had that anomalous of a ridge, you would see a much stronger a-cyclonic curv signal even in a smoothed out mean. Beware the pretty colors. pic.twitter.com/MzmZbV1f9O

— Scott Nogueira (@ScottNogueira) December 26, 2020