snowman19

Yep the good old days of the GFS. It would show blizzards into June

That is true. Back in Dec. 2001, JB was hemming and hawing that a huge winter was coming because of that -NAO Dec. That was his infamous “vodka cold” winter. Nothing but screaming zonal and semizonal flow off the PAC for months on end courtesy of the relentless high solar onslaught

Really since 19-20, we haven’t had an overall robust +NAO/+AO winter. Given the signals so far this year however, that may change this coming winter. It’s a rather ugly picture getting painted

I was kind of joking lol I’m still confident we see a La Niña. However, if it fails and we really do go cold-neutral/La Nada, then my analog becomes 01-02. That part wasn’t a joke

Yep. Cold-neutral coming. 01-02 analog

Looks like a steady rise in the QBO this month. It officially just went positive (westerly) in June: https://acd-ext.gsfc.nasa.gov/Data_services/met/qbo/qbo_phase_plot.png

Said it yesterday, if this is a cold-neutral Niña fail, 01-02 becomes an analog

@Gawx Yet another major geomag storm on the way:

93-94 is not a good option if we go ENSO neutral IMO. Nothing matches other than neutral. And the fact that we had a strong Niña extratropical background with Niña MJO forcing last year, to me is the equivalent of having had a Niña. The other factors…cool-neutral, -PDO, -PMM, QBO going positive, -IOD, solar, +AMO, match 2001 exactly. The big elephant in the room (assuming we go neutral) is the record high solar flux we have. It was the elephant in the room back in 01-02 that was completely overlooked and ignored. Remember “Vodka cold is coming!!”? @bluewave

People had better hope you’re right about definitely seeing a Niña because the neutral option looks real ugly. Even high Atlantic ACE didn’t help that cluster f***

A full-scale, sustained change of the blazing SSTs out that way looks extremely unlikely at the moment. My point is this….if we don’t have a La Niña and instead are La Nada/cold-neutral, then we are at the mercy of all the other factors I just mentioned, which actually closely mirror 2001-02. And 01-02 was a very active Atlantic hurricane season, 17 tropical depressions, of which 15 became named storms and 4 major hurricanes, 9 hurricanes all together. ACE was over 110

I’m still confident that we see a La Niña. If we end up cool-neutral however, it may be a case of “be careful what you wish for”. We are and have been in a default extratropical strong La Niña state for years, even last year with the Nino, we were in a La Niña extratropical state with La Niña MJO forcing (4-6). So, that said, if there is in fact a cool-neutral ENSO, then 2001-2002 becomes an analog IMO….cool-neutral/lack of a distinct ENSO signal, -PDO, -PMM, QBO turning positive, -IOD, +AMO (although not nearly as strong) and record high solar flux

That write up Ben did a few days ago on the RONI was good. I agree that it would be the go to metric to use for this event given all the warm around. It looks like the MEI is dead in the water so to speak for now

Just looked further at 1983, the period from 1982-1983 was extremely volcanic. 1983 alone had 58 different volcanic eruptions. No surprise that 83-84 is listed as a volcanic winter Source: https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eruptionsbyyear&checkyear=1983

I know 83-84 was considered a volcanic winter because of El Cichon 1982, which was a tropical volcano that pumped sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere. If you have a true volcanic stratosphere, then yes, it should be considered IMO. I believe that El Cichon was a strong VEI 5 eruption that reached the stratosphere back then. This year is a question mark, we obviously don’t have a Pinatubo stratosphere, as that was utterly massive, but will the cumulative VEI 5 eruption we had do anything stratospherically? I don’t know El Cichon history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chichón

I saw in your post from yesterday, you had 1983 as an analog, which was volcanic. I guess you’re assuming a volcanic stratosphere (El Chichon, 1982)? Given the cumulative VEI 5 eruptions we had back in April? @brooklynwx99 Edit: 1983-84

@so_whats_happening Anything new on the MEI updating? Dying to see an update. My guess is that it’s a much different MEI landscape from last year, since everything is coupled much better atmospherically (PDO/PMM) with the developing Niña….

The relentless solar onslaught continues, we also have a strengthening geomag storm in progress:

The EURO has been on again, off again since 18z last night. The GFS on the other hand, wants nothing at all to do with it

Yea I mean that’s pretty much the only thing lol besides those differences, we can keep going…QBO, solar, the AMO wasn’t out of control positive, no New Foundland warm pool, a true tripole developed in the Atlantic

Good points. 1995-96 was the complete opposite of what we are seeing now…+PDO, +PMM and WPAC cold pool. Contrast that with the present…strong -PDO, -PMM, WPAC warm pool with MJO 4-6 dominating. Night and day. The current trend toward a -IOD with a La Niña is only going to further support Maritime Continent convection and MJO 4-6

13-14 was as classic a +TNH pattern as you will ever see. Since 15-16, we have seen -TNH patterns dominating