I think they mean the temp anomaly. Though I don’t think next weeks warmup would be enough to cancel out the whole 3 month period. February maybe if the cold shot the week after fails.
So do you think this will be the time the floodgates open after the niña ends like it's supposed to or will it be like the last couple times and the dry pattern injects steroids when the niña fades?
He didn’t say all was lost. He was saying that marginal setups fell off a cliff starting in 2017 and if we can get them to be more workable again once we fully break out of the bad pac pattern is TBD.
I said a month ago about how it can torch all it wants in April. Well if the metros can get enough snow this month to surpass climo then I can accept a March torch. It’ll have earned it in that scenario.