Here is evil pope. Can always tell when he posts. I start to hear this chant music play, with lights flashing, glass shattering, and me being violently thrown against the wall and ceiling.
All of our "cold" periods have been in phases not typical of our classic MJO thoughts. The cold has been 3-4-5 towards maritime continent. Indeed we have another wave doing that. Also note the 850mb easterlies are dying. No longer a standing Nina wave as you can see. So perhaps as this goes to 180 on east..we can actually sustain some cold.
I was just thinking that from a cold point of view, I like seeing that part of the vortex split south into Hudson Bay. Anyways yeah, hopefully maybe it leads to a more sustained -NAO.
Op runs gonna op runs. But, ensembles still look pretty good. Euro op still shows the chance of some of these needing a little too close for comfort……but you get the idea.
I know everyone is snake bitten...and trust me I am with you. But for the first time all winter...we've had 3+ days of models showing something later next week. While of course this is still in the extended time frame when things could go wrong...that does mean something IMO. When is the last time we've had consistency....other than mild conditions being modeled?
That was a bad bust. Guidance was too focused on the WAA delivering the precip and seemed to underestimate the explosive nature of the deepening mid level lows. That was a sub 500 Hpa low going under SNE. Unheard of really. One would wonder if the anomalous nature of that just did not play well with model guidance.