40/70 Benchmark

Think about how you would feel if you lamented aloud "Man, I have a fu**king splitting headache"....and some ass jockey witinin earshot shoots back "I feel great, no head-throb here!"

No, no....just to clear this up, I never would have suggested you were doing so here. Nothing wrong with reflecting on your own obs. The difference is there are certain points in the past when it seemed as though folks feel the need to counter an expressed sentiment. Ie...people just like to vent frustration when they haven't gotten jack shit, and it can piss people off when someone who did relatively well feels inclined to reply directly to said statement with "well, we did fine here". Its invalidating. When folks are pissed, they just want to feel heard because it aides in the processing of the negative emotions. It would be received much better if you simply report your own good fortune in an entirely seperate thought/response. I know this seems like psychobabble, but it really is at the heart of what triggers a great deal of bickering when some get porked.

Looks like a bunch of amorphous garbage that will make it a bit festive for some lucky locales.

Got down to 34.2 on my station, but no slick spots.

Its cool that we all had expectations in check, so the right mindset is in place, but lets not get carried away (not suggesting anyone in particular has).

I still don't see a bonafide winter "storm"....I'll take the under on 2" IMBY between now and Xmas AM.

Thankfully stayed above freezing in my area....

OMG.....I am so terrified of my kids driving one day.

That Xmas deal just seems like some mixed festive/grinchy snow/rain showers.

Nah, hence the trip to the mall.

Euro is still like 1-2"....not sure I am ready to by some of these 3-4" amounts....at least in my area.

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I know I saw some posts to the effect that it could come back and be a light to moderate event, but I haven't been able to be gluded to his place like I usually am.

Planning having a nice festive family day on Saturday...out to breakfast and then to the mall to have the kids see Santa...having a couple of inches of currier and ives to add to the overall holiday ambiance would be the quite the memory and really add to the experience.

I thought he was arguing the storm was going to shift west?

Gotta give you props for your instinct on this if I'm being fair. I wasn't feeling it....caveat being lets see how the plane lands because its not yet on the runway.

I don't know how many times I have seen that inverse of that exact gradient over the course of the last several years....about time.

This is def more of a 2020-2021 type of mismatch, that encompassed most of Dec and January than it is 2022, which was more focused on January. Pretty clear I missed on that, but hit on the larger notion of a favorable mismatch period from modern cool ENSO climo.

Wonder where @forkyforkis to report that?

I love those

Very El Nino like.....

Probably be se of me.

Never would have guessed

That is some dual diagnosis shit when we have people doing PBP of the ICON...jesus.

Makes sense, as @StormchaserChuck!has often cited the correlation between RNA/-NAO and +PNA/+NAO