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Yeah I get the great snow analogs and all with the big ass NE Pac trough, but that works better in a Nino, and the Pac jet has been on steroids in recent years. Our source region has been/is torched with Pac air, despite the favorable AO/NAO. It could still work given enough time, but the pattern is going to do what its going to do regardless. EPS does get some decent cold into our source region, and into the lower 48- its just focused out west beyond the next 10 days, and our friend the SER says HI. What we need is to strike a balance that is probably difficult to achieve in a Nina, and this is what the ens means are depicting with the trough retrograding and a developing ridge along the west coast and into the EPO domain. EPS now wants to make that idea transient and go full bore Pac ridge.

GEPS has the same idea as the EPS towards day 15.

Ha I just mentioned that. Is that still a thing?

This is what I am thinking as well. The PV voodoo docs seem to favor a reinforcement of the Strat-Trop coupling that has already been established, at least for a time. We are always playing with fire on the Pac side with a Nina. What's the latest on the weakening trend for late wither?

It has been trending that way for a few runs. Hopefully it is wrong or overstating the pattern shift. It is depicting what is typical for Nina though(Pac ridge/western trough), so I have been expecting we would see it at some point.

Why thank you. I try my best to make useful and objective posts with some weenie/humor mixed in. Gotta be able to laugh when you live where I do and enjoy winter weather.

The 6z GFS op has blue over our yards on the 18th and again on the 21st with a coastal storm, although it is a bit too far SE. Should be seeing more threats pop on the op runs now that we are within 10 days of what is looking like a very favorable period upcoming.

Scrolling through the p-type panels on the 0z GEFS members between the 16th and the 24th brought a smile to my face. Looking like legit chance(s) somewhere around or just beyond MLK day, which is exactly on schedule with the expected better/colder pattern.

The window of best opportunity has been identified for a while now. Most have probably gotten bored with regurgitating/reading the same stuff over and over, or whining about op runs with no blue pixels over their yards.

Truthiness: belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on intuition or perception, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.

Like a Kingda Ka rollback.

But he has said those things on here, so you were being a bit of an instigator with that post.

People still cant figure out how to reply without including the attachments of the OP. What a scrolling nightmare.

It's not that it left its mark. It is still occurring. Until that NE PAC trough weakens and retrogrades, and the PAC jet relaxes, the puke continues to flow into our source region. That happens right around mid month and as the PNA/EPO ridge develops, the fire hose is pinched off and we have a mechanism to inject polar air southward.

Another cloudy day. I think yesterday was the only day this week that was mostly sunny. Good to know it can still snow in NC.

Yeah that goes without saying lol.

Make it heavy too.

Seems like it hasn't rained for awhile. My driveway looks pretty normal. It's gotten dry, but not too cold. We cant even do that right anymore.

Seeing hints of the EPAC ridge strengthen/retrograde into its typical Nina happy place towards day 15 on the ens means. That would favor some troughing out west. Long way off, and even with some signs of that on the means, the -AO/NAO/EPO are still there. Hell, the way things are going so far, we could use a bit of a SE ridge.

0z EPS. Its something, but this seems to be evolving much like this week's event, only weaker.

No I don't think so. Sounds good.

Yeah the next few days begins the transition from Pac flood to injection of Polar air into our source region and then southward.

Its never good when the laymen folk start talking about the polar vortex...since they don't have a fukking clue what it actually is.

Blue Ball-oons?

Yeah I know. You are addicted to those wonky surface p-type maps. It all starts upstairs though.