I'm pretty confident that there is going to be another ugly period later in January. In a perfect world, we get out of this crap pattern and warm up as things reshuffle over the arctic and the RNA relaxes, but we grab some snow in the transition.
LOL Yea, I would like to start seeing some signs of hope from the stratosphere....needs to happen soon, or else my second half idea may go up in a SBD cloud of smoke.
We have just sort of stagnated in this compression induced meteorological purgatory of sort....once something, anything starts to change, that should "stir the pot", so to speak.
Just my hunch, but I have a hard time getting out of this regime without some kind of storminess....you have to figure with two nodes of that magnitude relenting (NAO and RNA) there is going to be: 1) A ton of mass flux 2) Ample supply of cold built up put west.
Yea, this is the worst...no doubt....completely boring, yet not very comfortable and enticing enough for MJO to keep besieging us with ICON output and bedtime stories about phase 8. Just go 2011 and rip the band aid off...comfy numb.
Its milder than the other two, but I think there would be plenty of cold near by in that look with the orientation of the PV. Could be a decent pattern with latitude.
Will, the main difference off of the top of my head with respect to those years is that they were descending easterly QBO and even flipped westerly late.
Yea, I am not saying to buy that single OP run...obviously await ensemble consensus and then consistency, but that is a start. I think that is the right path. It just doesn't sit well with me that this season is a ratter.