Going to be tough with La Nina dominating many parts of pattern right now. QBO is unfavorable too, I think. (Something to watch is Nov-Dec '18 and '19 had the coldest Stratosphere ever for that time of the year going back to 1948. Should be interesting to see if '20 does it. And maybe '21 too.)
Kind of encouraged by this bubble -EPO in the next few days, it proves I think that Alaska could be a vortex for anomaly this Winter, positive or negative
I was thinking raindance knows some good relevant Winter correlations to major snowfall early this far south.. it's been a great localization experience.
Never seen 75% on the CPC's 3-month Winter before. (edit: that was before). Weak-weather.gov continues to play behind on the most basic weather-observation sense.. I doubt the NW will verify this Winter.
I found a better correlation to May-Sept SSTs in the NOrth Atlantic, vs actual NAO. It was like 0.75 vs 0.58. It hasn't worked the last Winter though so...
Intuitively, the modeled strengthening Nina doesn't correlate to other things. We'll see, I guess. Even if the Nina strengthens, my guess is there will be lack of -PNA-strong, or PNA descending.
I really hate the setup, October NAO is inversely correlated to the Winter. Then we have a 3-part ridge over the Arctic circle and northern gulf of alaska too. Ugly imo.