Wish I would have went colder in Chicago, NAO was the wild card.. it had been negative against trend-analogs going into this 4/6 months
-EPO really hit it too. In October I said +EPO Winter's averaged 7 named storms that point on, and we had 0 then after 19 early.
hang back, hang back (it will-it always does)
watch for it to get more cutoff/bombsouth though
/snow north of Richmond though (5/9 Richmond-centered storms are in Dec)
So much for that +NAO projected LR, It's a -NAO pattern this year. Feb 7-9-2022 +NAO is a big test.
(^The timing of this -NAO lifting out isn't going to match STJ energy.)
CPC maps are stronger, they have +6c in the central subsurface. history shows not much correlation, although 87-88 was negative in the subsurface during El Nino, and that was followed by a Strong La Nina.
re: the storm, Well, it's 25 degrees right now.
We are heading into El Nino, it looks like
I showed you the counter example, 1987-88 where the cold subsurface water during El Nino gave us a lot of southern jet High pressures. I think the warm bubble in the subsurface won't last past April-May, but it does directly correlate to +PNA conditions directly(when 165W-135W is warm-warming).
Let's see what's going on here at 98hrs
This would be a great chance to trend west if not for this complete depletion of reverse-Dec -PNA. It's too strong otherside/+PNA. We miss it. NAO-PNA are running together wrt every storm. ^1040mb High pressure, we aren't even that cold believe it or not
Yeah, warm pool should be centered in 2-3 weeks. surprised me. In this age of weather derivatives, etc. It should be interesting to see what happens, +PNA in La Nina +2-3 weeks from now (after what's already happening)?
-PNA for Feb, March, April, and May, I think.
I have a +PNA signal for 2-21-2022 and 2-22-2022, and we have been reversing last year in the Pacific pretty good (strong -PNA February), but I think we will pull it off 4-month in a row after this.
Yes, I've been watching it for 4 years. What falls, not in 6 hours, but overall is reprented. Totals were always lower when that map was low. simple mmk
Watch the gravity over the SW Rocky mountains/warm Denver over the next few years.
(We really need a Strong El Nino to even things out) We had a peak -PDO in the 1950s, didn't even out until 72-73, (65-66 was a -PNA El Nino) so we'll see.
Like I said though, -PNA popped, pattern changes to cold after 36hrs.. which makes me feel less good that it hasn't happened already. It will happen though it's too short term, but blah