40/70 Benchmark

I count him as part of that corridor...the NW edge of it.

Deal.

Think about it....if this kid down the street in the neighborhood has been holding you by the feet with your head in the toilet, while flushing for the past several years, would you rather you all get invited to the pizza party, or see everyone else enjoy with that SOB crying while staring in the window?

Yes.

Not gonna lie, I'd love nothing more than to steal the snow of those in a corridor from about you down to Brett and Ginx for the next several seasons.

Hope you find a keeper

That's what I told him...dude lives for sea ice.

The fact that la nina was so east-based last season is the only thing that saved us from what would have otherwise been a complete bloodbath.

I'll take the 100 with slightly lower humidity.

You can use analogs from back then...you just need to remain mindful of the fact that the climate has changed.

2016-2017 was actually a decent snowfall season in SNE...not great, but not bad....near normal on average, and even better across the southern half of the region. Yes, I pretty much agree with everything else that you have stated here...I was just speaking to the intensity of la nina. In the early going, this la nina is definitely more of a modoki with the cool anomalies focused west. NAO should be positive. One thing that I would like to add is that the PNA and PDO, while generally positively correlated, are not necessarily always lock-in-step....so you need to be careful about assuming a predominantly RNA pattern. Last season for instance, featured one of the most negative PDO seasons on record, yet the mean DM PNA value was only very slightly negative. The pattern was actually mainly PNA after the record RNA month of December. Its also about where you live...here in New England, we do absolutely great with decidedly negative EPO and variable PNA...its further to the south that needs the decidedly +PNA.

I'm not that worried about the intensity of la nina....sure, its going to peak at moderate early this fall, buts its going to be weak for the vast majority of winter.

That would be a theoretical positive for winter in the east.

Nice to see you in here, Howard.

Trace of rain here from a brief shower today.

Nah, they got a WS...he was a pretty big part of that 2018 title.

Sale going down (AGAIN) was the last straw for me.

CJ lol

Yea, I hear ya.....its black and white to me. We can agree to disagree.....apparently management agrees because the deadline, at best, can be viewed as a neutral impact on this season's team in the aggregate. Theoretically on paper you are right....they have enough talent to make the PS and get hot at the right time, but you need to make decisions concerning trade deadline strategy based upon the probability that that will occur and it just isn't high enough this season to justify not trying to plan for the future to at least a degree. They ended up with some extra prospects.

This team is not good enough to compete for a title....I'm not really interested in competing for the 8th wild card slot.

Hosmer to the Sox....boing.

Jerry is da man haha. He and Steve run our forums. I think I am probably going to fall into the so-so camp for you guys, but its early....

TGW

"We just traded the 8th best catcher in MLB for Pee Wee Herman and his spank bank, but we're still trying to make the playoffs".

I think that will change in a pretty big way in about a couple of weeks.