March blocks can do this. We’ve seen it enough to know it raises the ceiling on events. Doesn’t mean the odds of hitting the ceiling is any better though. Some people think it’s the same.
DJFM will probably have some record deviation of the epo ridge foldover. Not sure how it can be calculated but it’s impressive how we couldn’t pop a +pna at all with such a persistent -epo.
What hints? Look’s blocky and active. Probably lots of cold rain for you but you had a rough summeh worrying about the drought. Great to see your water tables filling up.