yeah-they were worthless last winter...but just saw elsewhere that they are cold for the mid to late December time frame-take it for what it's worth-they're a tool, nothing more
looks like starts overnight Saturday-both NAMS have it going all day Sunday, but there's a sharp cutoff to the NW so any SE correction would take the rain out a bit earlier. Amounts are forecast to be b/w an inch and possibly up to 2 inches in spots
you want "some" SE ridge-that's often the storm track along the northern edge of the ridge. Too much blocking and it's southern sliders and mid-altantic specials. 93-94 had a weak to moderate SE ridge which got us multiple moderate snow and ice events almost every week.
agree-although I think 2013 was very dry and we did well. We had a very wet October this year so that's good. November has been dry but that often comes with the arctic (dry) cold.
conjecture at this point....models change in a heartbeat. Also, who wants cold in November? It rarely yields anything. Let the cold pattern wait til 12/1 or even 1/1.
yeah that year and 11/12 featured dry warm conditions which started around 11/1 and never really wavered except for a 10 day period in mid to late January those years.