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This is one way to defeat a SE ridge. Amped up ridge out west with cross Polar flow coming straight south, and a displaced TPV. NAO is so positive that the low h5 heights are displaced into the 50-50 region. Would it still work today? Pretty unusual setup, but might be indicative of what we need going forward.

@Weather Will Impressive lol. Might take a trip to Deep Creek in the next couple weeks. Might not. Spring mode.

I'm going go check TT GEFS. It might be better!

NA blocking works better during a Nino. NS is too busy during a Nina, so the positive impacts a -NAO provides are negated to an extent.

I have cleared most of my attachments from those days but still have this one, uploaded on March 6th 2015. Temp when I took this was around 2F.

Yep this was another anomalously cold March storm. Temps here the following morning with snowpack were close to zero.

Was that the super cold St Patty's Day storm? IIRC that was the one that had some ice on the front end and temps fell into the low 20s in the morning with snow and stayed there all day. Ended up with 6-7" here.

Love it. You and I are a lot alike.

The primary disturbances in this pattern are in the NS. Unfortunately the initial heavier precip associated with that is(again) a bit too far north. The secondary coastal develops too late and gets carried well offshore by the progressive flow. Betwixt, between, too warm.. The suckage continues for our region in general.

Great analysis by Rich Eisen(as usual) on the Lamar Jackson situation.

Looking ahead to late next week. Looks a little familiar. The legit cold is out west. This may be our best chance. The ultimate hail mary.

Once again the presence of a NS low looks to screw up chances for frozen outside of the western higher terrain at our latitude for early next week. There isn't enough of a mechanism(lack of UL convergence/ confluence) up top to generate any decent HP to our north with a cold feed. Very weak signal for frozen on the ens means.

It's like an impressionistic painting. See it?

I was actually just having a little fun with the HH run, and doing the Jaws thing. You should have just laughed and moved on lol.

Still want to see what happens here when we get an "ideal Nino". Maybe next winter. Outside of that, I generally root for -EPO/+PNA w/ cross polar flow and legit cold, progressive pattern, and hope for an outcome just like last Jan/Jan 17/Jan 18.

Not displaced far enough south. Thus the need for a bigger block! These wimpy fake ass blocks won't work anymore.

Check out the CANSIPS for next winter.

CFS seasonal almost never has any blue on anomaly plots many months out. Its all relative. Then there is the awful TT graphics.

We gonna need a bigger block.

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It's close to something better. Have a feeling when all is said and done all 3 of these waves will have been closer than any of the predecessors, but probably not enough, esp for the lowlands. Would be a fitting end lol.

Very subtle spatial and timing differences between the key pieces of energy compared to 12z. The upshot is the southern piece of vorticity is a tad flatter/further south, so the area of precip is focused souther. And a tad colder. Still seems like this may be on its way to something (different). Gotta watch the timing/dig of the NS vort dropping in over MN.

Just had some weed AND poured a 120. I'll check it..

Not sure I would refer to that small ridge there with an odd orientation as a Baffin block lol. The low pressure showing up in the 50-50 region is a function of the progressive nature of the pattern, and the way lows are tracking. It isn't a real block with a quasi stationary 50-50 sitting there, but rather a parade of lows tracking through that space and continuing on into the NA. There really isn't a 'blocked flow'. Not a bad pattern and it could still work with luck and timing (and a little cold air). At least that's the way I see it.

And the HH drunks Location has an impact obviously. When I post I generally aim to give an objective synopsis for our region as a whole, based on what I glean from latest guidance. Not crazy about the prospects for frozen for eastern areas though.