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    We have talked about this before, but you know my stance for now....its regression on the heels of the snowiest decade in history. If it remains like this into next decade, then I will reconsider that position. If you recall, last decade the world was ending out west due to the multiyear drought...
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    I know...no offense intended whatsoever. Just a tension-breaker.
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    Regardless of that the weather is doing, its fruitless to post in here during the fall because anything and everything will be tied to warmth during the winter somehow. I'm sure even a blizzard in January will elicit a slew a "roll forward" posts to MC forcing in February, but at least then you can enjoy the snow while enduring it.
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    Of course, we finally may get a season in which raindance is a voice of dissent amidst a chorus of doom and gloom for the east and he'll dissapear faster than a day 16 snow threat.
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    One of these days Chris will make a post that doesn't make me want to shotgun a gallon of antifreeze.
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    Yea, raindance can be very prickily, but hopefully he stays because he is a great forecaster. I would def. suggest giving him a follow on X whether he leaves of stays.
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    Yes. This is what I have been arguing...that pattern hasn't been great, but we have also had bad luck in that the timing has consistently been poor.
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    I think most of us are just breaking your acorns when we mock you about that. ..pretty tough to deny at this stage.
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    See and that is what I really couldn't care less about...give me 2017-2018 all day long. I don't care that February being +123* C skewed the winter warm. But this is a more verbose way of saying adjust warmer from analog composites due to CC. We get it. Extreme anomalies are always difficult to forecast at extended leads. Agreed.
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    2013 was only slighly above average snowfall where I am....I would take 2017 over 2013, hands down.
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    I think most guidance has been too cold....and its also notable that the pattern looks more favorable, regardles of whether its too cold.
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    2017-2018 beat all but two or three of them for me in terms of snowfall...2010-2011 was close, but it certainly beat 2013, 2002 and 2009.
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    Retire in an absolute sense maybe, they still have utility if one accounts for CC.
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    I appreciate that because my work has definitely had a cold/snow bias, so I do make an effort to demonstrate that it isn't a conscious initiative or anything. While it is fair to say that I have some work to do in that regard, I am willing to bet that 99% of forecasters out there have been too cold and snowy in the east over the past several years. Even raindance, as exceptional as he has been and clearly the best in my mind, went very snowy in Maine for I think 2020-2021 and they ended up porked.
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    Great ("here" as in NYC) is your word; not mine. But I do standby my assertion that that could be enough for a decent winter for a much of New England, at least.
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    Man, PSL not updating those temp and precip composites is killling me. Hopefully that is fixed this month before I go to work on this winter.
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    Yea, textbook.
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    You are never going to see +13 magnitude anomalies in seasonal guidance...I think we all understand that. And my my money is on above normal in a lot of the east, but just not so extreme...all I am saying.
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    I think you are confusing my point. I am not claiming that the WPO is the silver bullet that will save winter in the east, but it is one factor. I have told you before that I do not expect the same magnitude of amplification with the trough out west as 2022, either...which probably ties into the WPO to an extent. If you want to bet on a reoccurence of that, then be my guest. 2022 with slighly less amplification out west would have been a good winter for my area...no doubt.
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    I don't think it will be as bad as 2022 for the east, either, but I do still think it has utility as an analog.
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    Raindance dropping a hot one on the 2022 analog. "You'll see a lot of people claiming 2022 as an analog for the winter. But the models continue to show a very warm pattern for the Southwest, with cold dumping into the Plains. In 2022-23, cold alternated between dumping into the West & Plains. That's not supported on the models."
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    That is huge -WPO.
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    The point that it hasn't been relegated to October. Its been omnipresent.
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    La Nina in and of itself isn't a big issue given in its meager intensity, but the larger issue is that persistent background state.
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