Terpeast

Stepped outside of Dulles airport coming back from relentless SE Asian heat, hoping for some refreshing cool weather… NOPE!

Yes, please. Doctor just ordered prescription glasses with special lens that block out blue light. Said it was because I stare at a white screen all day for work.

Yes it will. But this depiction, in my opinion, is well supported by the combination of the projected nina + neg PDO + marine heat wave off Japan.

Yep, that’s where we are. And that’s not even the hottest spot… HCM is close to the coast so it gets some marine influence that limits high temps. Areas further inland, even the suburbs, have been routinely reaching 105. Brutal.

Reading this forum as they look for their first 90 degree day seems a bit quaint (no offense intended) as I’m here literally melting in 100 degree heat in Vietnam. It’s been hitting 100+ for more than a month now, through the entire duration of our 3-week trip here, and looks to last through late May. Southeast Asia has been baking, making me root for a strong nina so they could at least get some relief. They need it.

I know it’s way early, but CFS is thinking along similar lines for January. Cansips DJF

Few minutes after peak

That was cool, even though it wasn’t totality here. Amazing stuff even so. Sun was just a sliver. Felt the acute cooldown and dimdown

Getting close to 90% coverage

75% coverage now. Feels cooler, slightly darker. Sitting out on my deck with a beverage… lots of big black birds are out now all of a sudden…

Wow, you even captured the diamond ring effect!

Yet another deck incoming, when just a few minutes ago everything looked clear. Pretty sure it’ll stay thin enough. 35% coverage

Think this cloud deck went over me before you, but i could still see the sun through, so its mostly fine now clearing up here (ashburn)

Skies appear to be opening up. Game on! 20% coverage now

Thicker layer of clouds incoming

First contact made. 5% of sun clipped off can see through the thin layer of clouds

Breaks in clouds, growing more confident that I’ll see a partial eclipse with special sunglasses at around 3-3:30 pm

Zero signs that the Japanese marine heat wave is ending. Looks like a carbon copy of 2022-23

Low of 34, but frost everywhere.

Just graded my 23-24 winter outlook:

Grading my 23-24 winter outlook vs actual results Temperatures: Decent match spatially, but off on the magnitude of the warmth. It's not just us being really warm, it's everywhere. Including Canada. Grade: B- Precipitation: Good match spatially and magnitude, a little bit off on the precip maxes though both midwest and east coast. I was highly confident of a wet winter, and that did happen. Grade: A- Snowfall: Truth is, I had at least one big storm baked into my snowfall outlook even through I cited only a 15-30% chance of a HECS. Well, that didn't happen obviously, so my snowfall guess was shot to hell. Grade: F Overall: I think my methodology and use of MEI led to an OK outlook, but was a little overconfident on blocking. We did get blocking, but each episode was either too brief, or occurred in the wrong places. Unfortunately, the MEI is no more, and I will have to either use RONI or a different method altogether for next year's outlook. Overall grade: C

Yeah, I’d have to compare my conus temp/precip maps in my outlook vs actual, should be a decent match. What went wrong was my snowfall outlook had baked in at least one big storm. Which didn’t happen.

Low of 27

Low of 29. No frost because its so dry

Smoke in ashburn. Where are the fires?