Heavy cloud thickness, snow days, albeit flurries. A sustained, +PNA is really the key we need to unlock that imo. We just yesterday had a +594dm ridge in the north Atlantic near Nova Scotia. The Hadley Cell is in an expansion phase right now, this is hooking up with -NAO at times even. I think we have trended in the last few years toward better cloud patterns, when the snowstorms were melting so fast early in the 2000s, that was a sign we were not heading in the right direction. I'm not ignoring how much of a +EPO December this is though: History says it carries forward at a 0.3 correlation.