The 850 mb wind trend for the same period shows that while older GEFS runs had anom. westerly winds at 850 mb all the way to 145W (past Hawaii), the more recent runs have pushed them back to west of the dateline, with anom. easterlies in the Central Pacific N of the equator. pic.twitter.com/WwPe8e88rq

— Yaakov Cantor (@yconsor) May 14, 2023