psuhoffman

Slower would allow the flow to relax to our northeast and allow the stronger NS wave behind a chance to catch and phase.

Something has to give. We have had predominant -AO years we failed to cash in before but they are examples where I wonder how we only got 15” instead of 30 not where we get totally shut out.

But the tear concerns me

Ask @EastCoast NPZ he lived there

@WxUSAF @CAPE This is a 10 day mean day 6-16. If we can’t snow with this pattern in mid to late January then it’s time to let @Ji loose on one of his scorched earth burn it to the ground epic tirades. I’ll even join in.

Only our feelings are allowed to be blue

The end result is the run ends at 90 hours

The best window is just starting to enter range. I expect to see those maps light up a bit more in the next few days.

@Ji @WxUSAF @CAPE 3 of the last 4 runs of the op gfs have looked like the ensembles do day 10-15. and suddenly we’re seeing snow in that period almost every run. This run was about to bury us at the end. I also doubt that day 10 storm lifts that far north before jumping to the coast. But the main point is the op gfs is hinting how that pattern would play out.

It’ll be gone in 12 days

Upstairs is fun for a while but blue without blue makes me red

@Maestrobjwa I really hope this doesn’t cross a line. What I am about to say comes from a place of caring and compassion not derision. And while I am not a psychiatrist I am a sociologist and I stayed at a holiday inn express once so consider my suggestion... Stop worrying about what someone thinks of Ji. Stop worrying about what they think of you. Stop worrying about if it’s going to snow. Stop worrying about defending how you worry. Stop worrying about worrying. Just stop worrying. Find something you enjoy that brings you peace in the moment and do that more. If you have anxiety I seriously suggest you not invest your emotions in something that is unpredictable and you have no control in and is guaranteed to disappoint you 99% of the time! That’s a really bad idea. Do things that give you agency over your emotions. Life’s too short to torture yourself. Plenty of other people will do that for you!

The snow is a big part but it’s also really nice here in the summer when it’s 92 degrees near 95 and I’m 83 with a cool breeze. I’m closer to outdoor activities I like here. I also don’t mind the drive. It’s time to meditate, reflect, and decompress. Sometimes get caught up on news or make phone calls. It’s productive. I could work up here but I like what I’m doing working with inner city kids. I don’t know if I’ll have the energy to do it forever but for now it works.

I feel like a broken record but everything really is progressing in the way we outlined a week ago and is typical of a blocking regime. There has been no degradation of the progression. The only let down is there was hope we “could” score something during the early phase of the blocking with some luck. My optimism for the Jan 15-30 hasn’t waned but waiting sucks. But I do keep having this thought lately...and touched on it with wxusaf earlier, it seems we don’t luck into minor events in decent patterns anymore. Waiting a while into a blocking pattern isn’t unusual. But in the past we usually had minor events along the way. 1995/6 we didn’t have any warning events until Jan 7 and that block established in early December but we had a string of minor events along the way. Lately it feels like we wait around for a perfect setup to get a big storm and otherwise it’s shutout city where we can’t even get a car topper. That makes this harder. Even a couple 1-2” events would probably make the mood more bearable. you are really funny sometimes sometimes

I see nothing wrong with it

May I suggest a different thread

doom scrolling...lots and lots of doomscrolling

If that threat is going to work that is probably the only way how. The NS flow is WAY too suppressive around the 11th but starts to relax after...if somehow the wave can slow down and amplify...or something like the euro run that let the first wave escape then amplified behind it...that could work. Need another 24 hours to let the NS get out of the way.

The ridge is a little west, more a WPO then an EPO...which is "ok" if we have a -NAO.

I hate using normal... to me "normal" should be the median not the average since our avg is skewed by big years. So this is kinda a silly point but my AVG is about 40" my median is about 35". By the "avg" I should be at about 14" by now...so yes even with that one big storm in December I am still running below climo for this date. But not by that much and I am NOT complaining...just pointing out even up here it has underperformed expectations for a sustained deeply -AO. Frankly you would expect to be above climo with that.

Shockingly it trended more amped after everything else went sheared

I was talking about the DC area. I am below climo for up here now anyways and that’s pretty astounding given the AO.

Don’t forget that nice 3-5” event around Jan 20 that year

So long as the AO/NAO stay negative that WPO ridge will put us in the game. But if the NAO/AO flip that epo ridge is centered way too far west. In a +NAO we would need the EPO ridge positively tilted extending into the Yukon not centered through AK.