Aside from SSTs....there is a reason that cutters are more frequent in December...there is a seasonal lag. The mean baroclinic zone has yet to settle southward enough on average.
I agree that December snows are certainly more festive, but March snow events are just better...especially anywhere remotely close to the ocean. But even regionally...I feel there are more high-end March events than there are December events.
Yea, I just took an EPS H5 image from xmas and annotated.
Wxbell has better graphics, but F5 has the Narcan snowmaps, nice simulated radar and Long range Ukmet plus ensembles. I would go w F5 bc wxbell maybe redundant for you
One anything changes that will cease....its not stable. Either the NAO block eases, or the RNA eases and one of the ridges will relent....or one the ridges just shifts in longitude a bit.
I feel like that parade of SWs must be getting grinded between the NAO ridge and the ridge down over Texas.....it must be aligned as such that there is just the right amount of distance to shear the pacific parade to shit at this longitude, and they can't begin to amplify again until approaching the Maritimes.
I have thought about it, but my mom's gonna be 80 in March.....who knows how many more she has. But Sierra Nevada in a pattern like this is on my bucket list.