Agreed about the budget cuts. People have no idea how detrimental they've been to the public along with everything else horrible the administration has done to government agencies.
Well it's more than just faster flow. It's more about competing influences that don't mesh together and a lot of that is due to multiple areas of forcing in the Pacific.
We've also had a dearth of southern stream systems.
Remarkable consensus 5+ days out. The kind you really wish happened 24+ hours out instead because so much can go wrong.
Ensembles will be key right now however getting the CMC on board is huge along with AI models which have been doing great.
No but you do get more leeway in latter Feb with changing wavelengths and the usual indices no longer hitting the way they would in Dec through early Feb.