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Also hinting at a ridge over GL, but it would need to be a bit further south. With a -EPO and TPV in that position, there would be plenty of NS energy dropping southward. How far south and how it interacts with any potential southern stream waves might be interesting. Overall that depiction looks quite Nina-ish, but with the NE Pac ridge in a more favorable position/orientation for cold in the central and perhaps eastern US, especially NE.

With the HP positioned just to the NE, the flow is out of the east. A bit unusual this time of year.

Random shower rolled in on the easterly flow. On the northern edge here just a few drops but looks like Ridgely is getting a downpour.

So nice this morning. Next few days are going to be as good as it gets for early August.

Jimmy Smith was picked late in the first round.. so if he was drafted a few picks later he would have sucked? Pretty sure Ray Rice was a second rounder. There are others. Even IF what you say was true in past drafts, what does that have to do with this one or future drafts? Luck? Superstitiousness? Silly and Irrelevant.

This dude is likely the biggest steal of the draft. Go Ravens!

Pretty much the same look as the CanSIPS.

Looks like a really low probability of rain in our region end of the week and through the weekend . HP is dominant and any forcing is super weak. Early next week doesn't look all that promising right now either, but we shall see. The HP will be shifting eastward into the western Atlantic, so an opportunity for a disturbance to make some northward progress with with a more moisture laden flow on the backside.

Low of 57. Beautiful sunrise.

Just northeast is probably better than say.. 8 miles south. Just a guess.

Low of 57. 59 currently. Spectacular morning.

12z ens guidance- EPS and GEPS depict the more significant precip chances for central/western VA late week, with lesser amounts possible for locations further north/east. The GEFS keeps all notable precip southeast of our region.

Do you ever look at the ensemble guidance? It's inherently less volatile run to run in the LR, and gives us an indication of forecast uncertainty. A single deterministic model cannot do this.

DFH 120 time. Limited release edition. The best yet imo. Might not age well like the other versions because of the the dry hopping, but it's so good no one would ever let it age anyway lol.

77/57 at 4pm on August 2 in the MA. Hard to beat.

Drier air is moving in and dewpoints should continue to drop into the 50s this afternoon.

Sunny here. 73/62 Low was 63.

Always the case with these Climate models. I don't pay much attention to the h5 height anomalies on these tools, more so the height lines and the flow. At the surface the depicted temp anomalies give a sense of where the colder air will be relative to avg. At least there is some blue! And its nearby.

Weak Ninas are typically the worst for our region for snow, but last winter proved decent snowfall is possible. First and foremost we need cold air, and the HL largely cooperated, most notably in the EPO domain. I cant worry myself over the PDO. It is what it is, and historically a -PDO correlates with cold ENSO, and visa versa. There are other things at play now that tend to keep it negative, but we wont get into that here. Hopefully, like last winter it at least trends towards neutral some. As I said in my post above, a key in how bad/good a Nina winter ends up is the orientation and exact location of the NE Pac ridge. If we get periods where it is poleward and located more over AK, we can get some cold to work with. Moisture and storm track are another story, and we need some luck with that.

12z GFS looks a bit more interesting with low pressure off the SE coast that gets squeezed northwestward as a sprawling area of HP in eastern Canada shifts southeastward into the Gulf of Maine. Verbatim it's a glancing blow for southeastern parts of our region.

Cloudy with a bit of mist. 69 Sure feels different than this time yesterday.

At this juncture we are probably looking at a weak Nina possibly transitioning to neutral as winter progresses. The orientation/location of the HP near the Aleutians is going to be a major factor in the winter outcome, specifically wrt cold air delivery to the midlatitudes of the central/eastern US. New CanSIPS has the general look we want for getting cold air nearby, and the rest is getting some luck with shortwaves along the boundary. This longwave pattern has been pretty common in recent winters, so we know how this works.

He was gonna go somewhere. I guess no one wanted Sugano? On a one year deal the O's would have dealt him if there was interest. Odd as he has pitched better recently and overall has had a pretty decent year. 8-5, 4.38 era..

0.63" Meh. A forecast bust if that's it, but it is what it is. Good month overall. 7.55"

The forecast of 1-2 inches for tonight looks pretty unlikely here given current radar and the latest HRRR runs. At this point I would be happy with another half inch, but even that might be a stretch.