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GGEM ole’s us 2-3 times. Tantalizingly close.

All 3 metro airports were BN for the first week of January, even with a double digit AN day yesterday. RIC is above normal for the month because yesterday was so warm.

Euro was about to do something D10-11 and then it sheared it to hell

GGEM doesn’t quite get it to happen, but some snow for our region late next week. Particularly N/W areas. Sloppy phase as guidance keeps showing.

Yeah your last sentence is key. If you ignore everything else and just look at ensemble mean D10-15 plots, that is the opposite of “shit the blinds and get ready for spring”. -AO, -EPO, +PNA, tropospheric PV in our hemisphere, neutral to -NAO, broad continental trough over eastern 2/3rds. That all says winter to me. Do we underachieve and waste it? Always a chance and maybe a decent chance due to residual Nina-ness.

Those are good points and certainly need to be kept in mind. I think small sample size is definitely a cautionary point as well. If you look at wind plots, OLR, and SSTs though, you see that guidance would put the most rising motion and convection in a canonically pretty good location for us: east of the maritime continent towards the central pacific. That should provide sub seasonal forcing that is favorable for winter weather. You can also look at atmospheric angular momentum and see that the global atmosphere doesn’t look very Nina-like right now. A lot of above normal AAM in the tropics. So I don’t know which of these factors win out. I don’t at all think we’re done with snow and cold. Will this winter be a memorable one? I also doubt that.

Assuming that’s all falling after D7, that’s basically climo for a 1 week period in mid January.

Holy shit!

^what time period has the improvement? Around the 15th? Later?

Perma-Nina makes stream phasing more complicated than usual. Next year’s moderate Modiki Nino is going to have triple phasers galore. Trust.

That’s definitely a window. At the super fantasy time range, GFS and Euro both have big dog potential and verbatim don’t get it to quite work out. eta…good day for the “D10+ op runs should look similar to the ensemble means” rule

Today’s a great day to fire John Harbaugh!

A lot of the problems that existed all season was the reason they lost last night, even more than Loop. No pash rush, poor defensive secondary (especially without Hamilton), horrific O-line pass blocking, penalties, etc. They were who we thought they were.

Pretty dismal offense after first drive