Does anyone else think it might be a little warm for the 2nd storm? That's a 500mb 482dm low off the south coast of Greenland at 165hr (++nao) and a 593dm high north of Puerto Rico.
I know the NAM isn't ideal, but so far at 18z it's digging a bit more in the west. That's the trend we need to look for. Hudson bay vortex is in a slightly more favorable spot. small steps
https://ibb.co/jH7WWDc
You guys dont love this look?
https://ibb.co/gyHKtGf
It's close to a big storm
That Aleutian island block.. if it doesn't go anywhere.. should help send the moisture further NW (slightly more amped SE ridge)
If it hangs back later, we might be able to do a stronger storm, because that piece of the Polar Jet is rotating SW in SE Canada (to possibly phase.. or at least close to it)
https://ibb.co/ZBPR9Qy
We seem to be hitting -NAO's more often, but they are being overwhelmed. I think this +Nao/+pna-epo .. or -Nao/-pna+epo correlation is going to hold.
If you look at the clouds... about 2-3 years ago we starting getting more cloud thickness. I think that is a long term graduation program. We still have a ways to go to detox all this snow-melt seasons, but I think we are trending toward something more favorable a few years down the road.
This is what we should have when there is a block over the Davis Strait like this. 2 jets underneath of it.. perhaps phasing. look at this potential energy on the 18z gfs run
-PDO has been chipping away so maybe we see it in February. My intuition says probably not, if it were to be a staple mark El Nino feature it probably would have happened at some point by now. We are on Neutral heights for the N. Pacific pattern, El Nino to date.
18z NAM is a little flatter vs 12z GFS fwiw
https://ibb.co/ftdFKW1
Hudson Bay low is moving all around.. it would be nice to get that to phase
https://ibb.co/gjBvWfw
Aleutian island block may help this thing trend NW in the coming days.. It's not like we are in some deep +pna pattern, the pacific is still favorable for a slight SE ridge.. maybe this works to our favor this time. Either way, the Euro and GFS ensembles in agreement is usually a good combo
Yeah, we had a nice NE Pacific High pressure when the 2-3 cutters happened though
https://ibb.co/GFXBnJG
Now, the NAO space and 50/50 low were just about perfect, but this goes back to our argument that the Pacific is dominating right now..
Yeah like something over the Gulf of Alaska. Correlation works less after Jan, into Feb-Mar though. +0.53 in Jan, +0.3 in Feb, +0.2 in March <(closer we can get to GOA low with a mean trough over the east).
Following February's from those analogs look like seasonal models currently have
https://ibb.co/K6mtPwr
Globe is a little too cold biased for my liking, and the GOA low has been missing so far in this El Nino. Maybe D+8 model will shift a little bit.