You did correct, but the warmup surprised you and everyone else-you were looking for a cold 30 day period...granted that could happen but we're going to have a few days with some big positive departures that were not see even 3 days ago...very difficult forecasting this year MJO jumping back to crappy phases mid Jan-also a surprise...Christ a month ago I thought we were headed towards a 14-15 repeat, doesn't look like that at all now...
10-15 days away as usual. Maybe it comes this time, maybe it doesn't, but it's getting late early. The warmup in the mid term was only seen by modeling 2-3 days ago, so anything beyond that is anyone's guess at this juncture... No guarantee the erratic MJO doesn't pop over to 4-5 again...and without blocking any arctic shots are in and out like the one this week...need something to lock it in....too much going wrong this year IMO.
No magic 8 ball, but like I outlined above, a lot is working against us. And on point 2, why don't you look at the data and make your own thoughts instead of regurgitating what others say?
He did one year-04-05 maybe? And he was right...but that's it... While I enjoy JB and do learn alot from his posts/videos, he has a clear cold bias-he'll try to find the cold in the pattern regardless. You have to factor that in with him and Joe D'Aleo....
that's his M.O. every year. So and so said this, so and so said that....blah blah blah. In the end, too much to fix this year...strong PAC jet, MJO constantly in poor phases of 4-5-6, phantom -AO and -NAO. Just too much working against us. Happens.
looks like a good call at this point. Nothing to date, maybe 1-2 inches of snow tomorrow and then we torch for 5 days...not looking good for anything sustained cold/snowy
JB had originally talked of a long lasting severe cold snap that would stretch resources thin....he's not talking about that anymore and is stating the models are too strong on the warm up next week. (certainly trying to keep the ship afloat, but it's taking on more water than the pumps can handle...)
From tropical tidbits, this is the 500 MB temp anomolies for a few dates....ugly to say the least, however there is more cold moving in in the long range, but verbatim this would be quite warm for 3-4 days...(the op run has 2 m daytime temps of 50-60 from PHL to NYC during this period.)
I misunderstood your post. I agree, looks horrible on modeling now...which is a change however from the models showing constant good pattern 7-10 days out....
let's look at it this way then, maybe it will snow in a warm pattern like last year's president's day weekend event. Heck, we can't get snow in this (somewhat) colder pattern....
yeah big el nino's are often warm here...82-83, 97-98 and 15-16...we lucked out 2 of the three with a big storm, but otherwise, the winters were torches outside of a 2-3 week period.