BOS November 1961-1990: 45.3
BOS November 1991-2020: 44.7 (!!!)
ORH November 1961-1990: 39.4
ORH November 1991-2020: 40.2
BOS December 1961-1990: 33.6
BOS December 1991-2020: 35.7
ORH December 1961-1990: 27.4
ORH December 1991-2020: 30.5
ORH really got nuked in December..BOS did too but not as much....losing 1989 and gaining 2015 is a big one though.
Yes Hudson Bay is lagging badly....the arctic ocean though and adjacent seas are way ahead of recent years.
Hudson Bay had no ice at this point in 2016, 2012, 2010, 2006, and 2003 too, so while rare, it isn't unheard of.
Chukchi sea froze over faster than any year since after the 2012 monster melt. The difference is 2021 also has refrozen on the Atlantic side very fast unlike that 2012 autumn. That's why we're more like the early 2000s right now for extent
You realize that it's like 5-6 days out still, right? This isn't a 3 day lead time right now.
It's fine to point out the possibility (hell, I linked to my post 4 days ago pointing out the favorability of the pattern for Nov 28-30), but "locking" it in is ridiculous.
That is interesting....KBOS went to crap in the spring too after last winter. You can see when they fixed the REALLY bad issues back in spring of 2020, but then the step down to crappy (but not quite as bad as before) in spring 2021 and now getting back to normal in fall 2021
Not the final solution of course....that was close to something a lot better. Verbatim though, prob just some light snow mostly S of pike on that run for Sunday.
Euro is going to have snow here on Sunday...possibly into Monday too...backside energy trying to dive in so we'll see if it goes to town, but even the current solution has light snow falling on Sunday in SNE.
PRob going to be getting good upslope snows on Friday too...even over at BW. This looks like a pretty robust event because there's a lot of deeper level synoptic moisture associated with it.
Pretty classic “good La Niña” look on that run where the N tier gets cold and active storm track. You can see the gradient there on the 850 temp anomalies (and it’s easy to see at H5 too). That’s definitely what we are hoping for.
It helps that the Atlantic isn’t horrific...almost kind of neutral look there. PV also displaced a little south toward our side of the pole.
I’d be surprised if we don’t at least get the “first flakes” monkey off our back for many of the areas who haven’t seen them yet. Prob a lot of popcorn snow showers around with that upper level cold pool even if we don’t get a real storm.
May have to watch for a follow-up clipper if that Sunday/Monday system gets crunched offshore. The cold definitely has been getting prolonged on guidance. Seems like we may only torch for a brief time now...hopefully that holds.
This is the same "system" from the post I made several days ago....interesting that it has reappeared recently (GGEM has it too but just a day earlier).