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40/70 Benchmark

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  1. I don't think el nino is telling us very much this season. Winter 2023-2024 Unlikely to be Decided by ENSO | Eastern Mass Weather
  2. Interesting how far west the forcing was in 1995, and it still managed to be a brutal winter with very little blocking....I have a theory why and may be relevant this year.
  3. I agree, but I am pretty confident that this goes basin-wide....which really just means that the pattern would be a little less prohibitive to blocking than it would be with an east based event. However, there are certainly basin-wide events that have gone in that direction (very little blocking).
  4. Pretty trivial adjustments, as with respect to the EMI....from 1.67 in May, to 1.76 in June and now 1.81 in July. We have gone from 1.7 to 1.8 from May to July....I know that wouldn't alter my seasonal forecast- Still think 2.0 ONI is the ceiling.
  5. Looks like JAMSTEC has it shifting westward a hair more aggressively, but mostly noise....main takeaway is the east trend stopped. June May
  6. During the stronger, canonical events, the Aleutian low is very prominent and tucked in tight to the coast of the PNW, so that there is a stronger PAC jet....during the weaker events that are focused more to the west, that low is more meager and further off of the coast.
  7. I use the MEI....factors in to my intensity classification.
  8. That season is a pretty good match in terms of where guidance place the forcing, too....maybe just a hair east that season.
  9. In terms of factoring in the eruption, 92-93 is probably of more relevance given how long ago it occured....that season was even more +AO. New England lucked out that year because the PV was so elongated, kind of like 2007-2008.
  10. Perfectly feasible outcome given where seasonals are placing the forcing, which makes sense assuming the W PAC stay so anomalously warm.
  11. First of all, we can agree to disagree on that, as I view it as more central based/basin-wide....I view modoki as heavily biased west of 150*W. Secondly, as I have said, you are too preoccupied with SSTs and not focusing enough on the convection, which is why the "east-based" analog of 1925-1926 ended up in the manner that it did.
  12. I disagree regarding the bolded seasons...care to explain why? I agree that the other three are poor fits, as 1976 was very meager and 2002 and 2009 were modoki seasons. Forcing looks to set up very similarly to the way it did in those other two basin-wide seasons, though.
  13. I asked him that the other day on twitter...if I remember correctly, he likes the absolute sst match within the ENSO region, despite 1993-1994 falling short of official el nino criteria. It is subtracted to "fix" the PDO, as it was positive that season and is negative this year.
  14. Tough to say...perhaps the furnace that is the atlantic these days promotes even more explosive cyclogenesis, which lowers heights more to compensate. I think the issue that continues to plague our general understanding of global warming and its impact as a society is that we continue to employ too linear of a thought process.
  15. I agree....been trying to explain that to snowman, who apparently doesn't think that the location of the tropical convection is important due to a warmer climate. One of my largest mistakes in the past was focusing only on the ENSO region, but I now realize that the entire equatorial Pacific is crucial unless the significant anomalies are relegated to just the ENSO region.
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