Carver, I wished the aleutian ridge would retrograde or shift east and morph into a Alaskan ridge lol. Interesting statement. A guy who is a friend of mine on Facebook, which he does a weather page. He mentioned that the farmers almanac shows a winter storm first week in January for mid south/ tennessee valley. That would be interesting because we had one last January around same time.
I think unless the nao goes west based, it will benefit east of us, but we shall see. Another case of if the nao will be able to morph from east to west based.