EasternLI

Oh man, this is really nice!

Big time Aleutian low paired with big time Scandinavian ridge is looking very stout indeed. The strat vortex is going to be facing big big trouble...

More chances to come too. This is the first real chance lol. Right on time too, if you ask me. With winter just beginning on the 21st. Met winter is just for bookkeeping IMO. This is playing out nicely. We may need to make some stops for pickups.

It's going to get very interesting in the strat with the re-energized tropical signal going into the Pacific IMO. In addition to that, WQBO acts as an amplifier to the phase 7 forcing on the vortex as well. As per the research. Really curious to see what happens here. And again, when Ed is talking like this. It's a very good idea to sit up straight and pay attention. As he normally points out flaws with how things could happen. He's not doing that this year. The quest for a -AO winter, as a whole, continues with high interest.

There's even another shortwave after that lol. Weenie 18z gefs run.

Sure was. Worth watching for sure. Especially after seeing that eps today.

Waaay out there, but hints of the anomalous ridge retrograding to Scandinavia/Urals. With an anomalous Aleutian low? That would be terrible news for the vortex. Looking forward to it.

There's never anything perfect. It's more about getting a favorable collection of variables. La nina and el nino are fine, for the area. As long as it's not one of the super variety. Neutral can be problematic. But it's that, plus everything else going on in the envelope of that, as well. This year? We have an extremely interesting set of variables.... The formation question, is complicated. There are a lot of factors that go into that. That's something that's constantly under further research, at least as far as I've seen.

I think it was on December 1st

Eps and gefs are now both pushing the tropical signal into the Pacific harder. Re-energized. I hope you all get winter coats for Christmas. Say goodbye to the SPV too, if that goes off as strong as it's looking. We'll revisit next month.

You guys will be begging for a warmup come January JMO.

2 camps on the EPS for that. I think this Friday system needs to get out of the way first. For a clearer picture. Tons of spread.

Just got a chance to look things over. I kinda liked the 12z eps, personally. It's a fairly decent match to the phase 6 composite at the end of the run. What does that mean though? To me, it means the the tropical signal is gaining more prominence again. Which is what we want to see. But also, that it's making it's way into the Pacific now and it's getting reflected as such in the 500mb. Which is also what we want to see. A good phase 6 and 7 pass here would be very helpful towards dismantling the SPV. I do wonder if the upcoming jet extension (c/o +EAMT) helps kick off this process. Not sure, but interesting to think about. If we can achieve phase 8 in January, that would be a KU signal. Fingers crossed we can achieve all of those things. It's a tricky, funky year but it's taking us down the interesting path.

Just some flurries.

Nice little coating of snow this morning. Roughly 0.5" on grass/colder surfaces. I'll take that on December 12th, nice holiday feel this morning.

Yeah, saw that. I can see the eps members playing games in the tropics. They can do that sometimes. It happened last year. We witnessed some of that again with the gefs doing better with the Pacific this year. Gefs is much more coherent looking with the tropical signal going into the Pacific faster. I think the eps will come around. It's going in that same direction already anyway. Just not as clearly, yet.

Well gefs is going for the ridge link up as well. Ok then. And let's be clear here. The picture is day 10, but this starts at day 6.

I would love to see these 2 ridges get together over Santa's house. What would that be -6 ao lol. But it's also just a cool illustration. Simply look at what something like that could do to the TPV. It's shattered in pieces all over the NH.

Outstanding. We even see the classic blocking look of PV lobes trapped underneath. Very nice run.

Sick gefs at 12z. Pattern loaded after end of week deal all the way out. Cold centered on the great lakes is a good look for the area.

Yes. And I'm waiting to kneecap the PV in an attempt to have it stick around all winter. Still very optimistic about that too. Fingers crossed.

We very well could have a cold Christmas en route for the first time in forever.