I don't want that to weaken much. This pattern coming up does not look like a suppression pattern...so I think we need the Atlantic to help make sure we don't have any lows ride up our fannies.
Yeah, no issues verbatim. For selfish reasons I like it because it allows for a bit more cold to work into the picture around here and that's needed in December.
Having it a bit east of 135E is good IIRC for baked AK.
Anyways that's just one piece of the puzzle. I do like the higher heights hanging around to our north like Will mentioned.
My guess is a Rockies trough looks good in the extended and the AK ridge should hold, maybe eventually retro west a tad? But if we can get poleward ridging that will help. Forcing supports somewhat of a Nina look.
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