This type of pattern won’t even save me. That southeast ridge is stronger and more persistent than anyone is giving credit for. This is a rains to Maine pattern for the next three weeks. December will come in well above normal temp wise and below normal snow.
All along it’s been fair to point out potential problems. Jerry was the only one that agreed lol. But that SE ridge is damn stubborn and going to dominate this winter. The Pacific is chaotic and after that block forms the available cold source is not very deep. Just some issues and guidance slowly trending less optimistic.
That SE ridging is pretty darn stubborn on guidance as well. It might get flattened but seems to want to pop up and even retrograde NW. It seems as if at least early on here the SE ridge wants to be a feature this winter. At least on the op runs it wants to put most of us on the SE side of any systems.
I think it’s fair to point out that things may not progress like we hope. There are signs that although we will get a block in Canada, it could be fairly transient and the ridge in east or at least zonal type flow resumes shortly after. There is a window but it may not be great.
Ensembles seem to be trending toward a more zonal flow in the long range. The trough is finally forced to dig under the NAO block around 12/7-8 so we get colder in the east. It is initially helped by some EPO ridging but that has been washing out in the longer range in recent runs and we are left with a fairly cool zonal flow. All in all I would have to say the last day we’ve taken some steps backs but Will and the big dogs can chime in.