Stormchaserchuck1

Subsurface is taking on Moderate-Strong El Nino configuration with >+6c in the east, and cooling in the west.

Just some musings because the thread is dead.. These droughts have lately been filled in there after by above average precipitation.. Since June is below normal, I can see July and August potentially being above average temperatures, as that is the macro pattern. (Watch the LR pattern, Days 10-15 for favorable tropical tracks to hit the EC, if anything develops this early..) I said before that the precip pattern has preceeded some harsh, snowy Winters.. this correlation may hit early, and neutralize for the Winter, I'd give us a 250-300% chance of hitting above average rainfall with a tropical system early in the season.. If we don't get that correlation by August, watch for some +PNA signals.

A beautiful, windy day. I guess all the rain at this point will come from thunderstorms, huh?

AMO has recently had an inverse correlation to ENSO. Since 1995 +AMO change, we have seen 8 El Nino's and 15 La Nina's. Here is May AMO correlation to Dec: https://ibb.co/BTQ2pzk

That warm wave seems to be leveling out now. 12z GFS ensembles look actually La Ninaish in the MR/LR, Take it for what it's worth. I contest that the globe is in a state that would have to spin up a +1c> Nino to level it off, call it -AAM or whatever.

We're definitely due. Someone did a correlation that Winter's like 2002 followed dry times. Sometimes those far out correlations hit closer term, could be a tropical storm if we stay dry until then..

Btw it's unhealthy that everyone is 20-50x more talking because of the smoke.

It's been strangely cloudy but no chance of rain the last 2 days. I wonder if anything different is going on weatherwise (besides the smoke).

It would be nice to see the decadal NAO go negative. It's ripe conditions for that I think. -NAO's keep getting sheared out. And when the NAO is negative the Pacific pattern always changes a certain way to support us being warmer, something like "not being realized within X box". (I wonder if a super, super -NAO is possible to happen).

NAO remains variable.. no signs of sustained, long duration -NAO, and it fluctuates on future models a lot. N. Pacific pattern >>>.

This -1 area is keeping us away from next level (Strong) El Nino. https://ibb.co/FmySPLG Edit: with the way the Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up, those correlations are rigid, I wouldn't be surprised to see the central-subsurface cold pool keep/expand through the season.

The CFS has a trend bias.

21/11/5

Just saying, Natural Gas has moved from 2.1 to 2.6, now back to 2.1. I'm getting preliminary -NAO signals, using my N. Atlantic SST method, and ENSO/QBO, so we might be looking at +EPO/-PNA part of the time.

With -QBO and warm western subsurface, I think we "want" a stronger Nino.. Weak to Moderate looks likely though. 18-19 showed that Weaker El Nino's can sometimes be conquered by the Pacific trend. I have a really strong +PNA signal for Dec, using methods unconnected to ENSO...

I just want to point out again the macro pattern- no clouds/clouds. I think going into the Winter it's one of those situations where we could have a 12-36" storm, or nothing at all, a snow drought. I think that we are creating a lot of tendency for a coastal storm, which started last Winter.

The rapid change to correlating ENSO is a little too perfect for me. I think we will go hotter than average in July-Aug-Sept.

Technically, per CPC, it was a +NAO Winter, making this 13-4 since inception. 2022 1.08 1.68 0.77 -0.36 0.71 -0.12 -0.09 1.47 -1.61 -0.72 0.69 -0.15 2023 1.25 0.92 -1.11 It was within the 0.54 SD too. Something like 10-7 there since inception. Right now, through the month of May complete the Winter 23-24 NAO SST index is -0.70 for the coming Winter. Last year it started off negative then went/finished positive. It's a May-September calculation.

Another nice +PNA hitting here shortly. If we continue this through July (which it might because ENSO subsurface is warming in the west), it will be the 2nd year in a row the warm season has gone +PNA, and that is something to consider going into a Winter that has had 7 straight -PNA's.

I think we have higher potential this year, even if temps do or don't show it. It's having more humidity in the air and a faster aloft jet stream. 104, 103, 103, 104

I'm getting really strong +PNA signal for Dec. -NAO's are common lately, but I wanted to make note in the May long range thread that they are correlating with the warmest temps all the time. I said 90s late May with +NAO, and it went -NAO first few days of June and only then did we hit it... this has been happening over and over: So we continue this reverse-NAO thing, but another point to note is that haven't really had 30-60+ days of straight -NAO for about 10-15 years, so we are decadally not really in -NAO phase, although smaller duration -NAO's does seem to be the tendency. These are correlating with +EPO/-PNA all the time, but maybe El Nino will change that.. maybe not. El Nino/-QBO is a stratosphere warming signal, and -NAO for the Winter.

94-95 was a strongly +NAO Winter, I'm getting some good -NAO analogs for the Winter. Dec big time +PNA is hitting too.

Western subsurface is heating up again, in a lot of the stronger Nino years, the western subsurface had already started to cool. Central subsurface will continue to cool probably, next 5 days as -pna persists, then may trend warmer June 5-11. CPC and Australia subsurface data under Nino 3.4 correlates strongly with N. Pacific pattern at D+0.

It's a macro-pattern right now I've seen in the US with drought-no drought over the last 6 months. Irma a few years is a show of what can be done with potential energy, but the El Nino is getting ramped up lately too.

We have a -PNA but it correlating as a wave-break under a N. latitude ridge. We are shifting colder the last few weeks.. not overall though.