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Yup. I grew up in South Jersey, and I recall being excited by storms coming in from the west or northwest that were progged to reform because that usually meant we'd get some snow. ittle did I know way back then that NE would get absolutely clobbered by them or else my enthusiasm might have ben dampened a bit.

There's all kinds of weird stuff happening on that run. Look at some stuff going on off the NE coast with lows retrograding/reforming well to the southwest. Pretty wild. I know that folks generally think that Philly gets blasted by Miller Bs, but in reality they usually don't. They do get snow from them, but those storms usually mature too late to get Philly into the good stuff. Better than smoking cirrus like we do, but they don't usually get snows like they do from New York and to the N and NE.

No way am I sweating details this far out, especially since both the Icon and Canadian showed an actual coastal, but I'm intrigued by what the GFS just did. It's pretty cool to see a flow of moisture coming at us from the NW, up and over CAD. Instead of a flood of warm air pushing from the SW that threatens to erode our CAD, we have the mechanisms in place to reinforce the cold air and because we get some redevelopment south of us and we have flow coming from the NW we're not threatened with the mids being overwhelmed with warm air. Whether this happens or not, it's just kind of a cool thing to see play out on a model.

Makes sense

GEPS puts a ridge on the West Coast around Day 12 and keeps it there for basically the remainder of the run.

I was thinking that. In our neck of the woods, we can have too much of a good thing in that regard, but there's temperature risk for us pretty much any time and in any pattern.

And that's a killer -EPO getting established there. Looks like the cold air moderates a little by the time it gets to us, but we're still BN.

I honestly thought it was going to end with the person backing off. What a f*cking moron.

As a Tottenham Hotspur fan, this post immediately made me think of this:

That's always the one positive thing I take away from these shitty weather periods in December.

That day was a f'ing disaster. I flew up there for work that day and landed about 30 minutes before the snow started. Took me 7.5 hours to get from Logan to Bedford. This was before smartphones, so I tried taking back roads by using non-live Google maps on my laptop connected via jetpack. Pretty sure it didn't make a lick of difference. Good times!

Likely in HHI from December 26-January 2. I'm a little scurred, to be honest...

Come on man...we're not losing anything based on a single ensemble run.

The only thing we need is for there to be shortwaves coming at us from the southwest. As we all know, if we have to rely on the northern stream to get it done for us, then we're teetering precariously on the edge. But yeah...that look is pretty phenomenal. How about we just get a bowling ball that rocks out of Colorado and straight across the country? I do have a question for anyone who can answer: If we do rely more on the northern stream, is it helpful to have the ridge axis a little further west or do we still want it ideally running though Idaho?

I hadn't even thought of that. Makes perfect sense now!

Walking back from the bus stop this morning gave me more of a chill than I was expecting.

So what? Let him lurk.

Simply put: F*ck yes.

Good thing I don't see his posts.

Yup. If that happens, it's going to be almost unwatchable.

He’s one of their better attacking players, so it could well make a difference, especially if we get a lead and they have to push for a goal or two. The bigger potential miss is Sardar Azmoun. If his calf injury is still nagging him (as rumored), then they could really miss him as an effective outlet if they sit deep and defend.

Low off the Canadian Maritimes reforms off the Mid-Atlantic due to a massive pig block? I could see it happening.

100% with you on that. We definitely have it in us to do it, but it's always hard to break down teams who are looking to nullify any sort of attack and who aren't looking to attack in their own right. If Iran gets a first goal of the match, then it's going to be grim viewing, but if we can somehow pick one up first then we may be able to slice them up as they come out of their shell.

Shitting bricks (again) already