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Not really. The biggest problem, until proven otherwise, is lack of weapons.The 3 headed TE monster has been reduced to one, and they did nothing to get a legit WR, unless you count Dez. The OL is also a wreck this season, when it was completely dominant last season. And then there is the Roman vanilla flavored offensive "attack". Maybe we will find out next season where Jackson's career is headed.

It takes a nearly perfect set-up, plus the usual luck, to overcome climo and get a significant snow event in the lowlands of the MA before mid December. It happens, but not often.

Haloti Ngata of the Ravens altered his career with one brutal hit.

34-13 final score. Bad guys.

They definitely need to win the turnover battle, not kill themselves with penalties, and get a few breaks.

The pattern sucks for this upcoming storm. Look at the surface map. That high nw of the Great Lakes is ok, but the high east of the Maritimes is hideous. We want low pressure there. This underscores the importance of a true -NAO(block) with a 50-50 low underneath. That scenario produces confluence and places a surface high further west with a mechanism for cold to drain southward, and decreases the chances of a low track overtop/to our NW. If there was an antecedent arctic air mass, there might be a better outcome with this look.

Recent GFS runs giving me flashbacks to last winter. One good sign going forward is some actual cold gets into Canada. The longwave pattern looks supportive of a cold shot for the east around mid month with a ridge building into the EPO region. It remains to be seen if that pattern sticks or quickly breaks down.

Dobbins, Ingram, and Brandon Williams eligible to play. Williams probably won't though with the ankle. The RG3 to Dez connection! They will probably still lose, but it may be competitive if the D and running game can play complimentary football.

I chatted with Mitchnick this morning.

Tracking scattered flurries is an amazing experience.

Take the pining for those who choose not to post here to banter lol. Bob Chill will probably return when there is an actual trackable threat.

Sipping on a 120, because why not?

The point I was making is that it would be hard for it to not "catch on" at this point, considering we are now in December lol. As for the rest of winter, January isn't that far away now, and our snow climo improves a lot from today, so worth monitoring the LR pattern trends.

Not surprisingly, the new CanSIPS has a pretty good look for December, as the other LR guidance has been advertising for at least the first half. Looks like crap for the rest of met winter, as do the latest runs of the CFS.

Reading the Mt Holly AFD this morning, this made me chuckle for some reason, but ofc it's the truth. Expect low predictability to continue for another few cycles, as the complex interactions with multiple systems in both the polar and subtropical streams are of reduced scientific understanding.

Well most of those players can't play this week. So maybe.

Life is transient. Then you die, and it's 33 and rain for all eternity.

Meanwhile the Ravens have not had an actual practice since before the Titans game.

Wow that is dumb. They really don't want to do the week 18 thing.

Yeah poor excuse for a -NAO. 50-50 high smh.

Very orange looking out there. Kinda cool but creepy.

Just got home. Lots of water laying around from the line that just moved through. Some legit flash flooding in places. Must have been a deluge, and the soil cant take it this time of year esp with all the rain of the last several months. 1.65" in the rain gauge here. eta- looks like an inch of that fell in the last hour.

Might get a shot of legit cold air around mid month with this look. AK trough muted, and cold air in central Canada decently recharged. Have to watch the western ridging as it appears to waning/retrograding some at this point- might be wrong, temporary, or the pattern could be evolving to one more typical of a Nina.

Mount Holly thoughts this morning- CAMs continue to indicate scattered, fragmented, multi-mode convection developing across the forecast area. Any robust convection that can get going and maintain itself will have the potential to be of the "power shower" variety. These will have the potential to bring down the stronger winds from just above the surface in the form of damaging straight line wind gusts. If the best instability is realized (>500 J/kg), I wouldn`t be surprised to see a low-topped supercell or two across the coastal plain. In addition to the convective wind potential, low level shear values will be high (40+ kts) with curved low level hodographs supportive of surface based rotation. The tornado potential is certainly non- zero with this environment, but given questionable convective mode the confidence is not particularly high on this potential.

Yeah they won't postpone it unless there are more positives tomorrow. And there is no chance the Ravens win with 8 starters out due to covid, plus the ones that are already out due to season ending injuries.