Unclear what implications, if any, this might have, but the SPV is going to get squeezed again shortly. One would think that will help get the coldest air to propagate farther South wrt latitude after mid Jan.
I actually miss the days we would get a steady rainstorm with times of driving rain...for 48 hrs...and finish with 3-4" of rain. Feel like that used to be common once if not twice a year.
Careful what you wish for. With that epo ridge on roids, a + PNA tandem could be too much of a good thing (polar cold but dry). I will roll the dice with the epo and some cpf with a flattish negative pna ejecting waves along the thermal boundary.
Only posting it because there's not much going on next week or so. But op at range has a CPF showing up and stj getting active. Let's see what the gefs has to say shortly:
That was so close. Southern energy, cold nearby, phasing. Looks like something behind it possibly.
Clearly not a winter cancel run.
Just for the winter is over crew, I'll drop this here
If you could live thru the Blizzard of 66 KU storm knowing the end result, would you stay at your home base and enjoy a classic KU snowstorm or would you travel to Oswego and endure the 8.5' of LES?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_blizzard_of_1966
Was loading up a jaws at the end too. Nice run. Step back from the ledge my friends!
Eta: waiting for someone to chime in and overanalyze hr 384 on the ai and remind me the hp is pulling away and how we lose in that setup
The only ones cliff diving are the folks that set their expectations higher than a cliff thus the jump. Fact is, neither of our respective regions are notoriously snowy, so expectations always need to remain tempered. Ive grown to assume every winter will be AN temps wall-to-wall with either a drought or zero snowfall. Haven't been disappointed in years.