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I think you posted 0z, but the thing that jumps out to me over the last 48hrs is the western ridging building behind that shortwave and the PAC trough pulling back. That helps force the low under us.
Euro phases the northern and southern stream lows and then pulls a high pressure in from Canada. GFS keeps the streams separate and the northern stream moves through the lakes and just obliterates the airmass into subtropical garbage.
Airmass late next week ahead of that storm is not quite as garbage as the GFS. GFS shows an absolutely horrific airmass. Euro is marginal, but clearly better. Also has the 850mb low track south of us which is ideal to lock in the cold air. Behind that storm at the end of the run, there's lots of cold air around.
Yup, it has heartbreak written all over it. You, @losetoa6, @HighStakes, and @mappy manage 1-3” of slop while the rest of us enjoy 35F rain. 40F for @CAPE and DCA.
Lol look at these closed 500mb shortwaves tracking south of us on the GFS and just a rotten airmass. Please Jesus let that continue once we get even some marginal airmass.
I think we get teased in the Jan 7-15 time period. Maybe something does work out then. It wouldn’t shock me. The difference between “great” winters or periods of winters and “fine” are usually whether we luck our way into some marginal events.
By many numeric indices (AO, etc) we’re going to underperform this December. For the folks north of the Fall Line, it’s going to be a “fine” December. But could have been better. We’ll see what January offers.
We score a solid storm in late Jan. Then pattern relaxes for two weeks. Great pattern returns around V-day, but we get fringed while NYC on north gets 2’. 80F by March 5.
The overnight D10 EPS pretty clearly answers the “just high heights” or a true ridge in the NAO domain. It’s the later. And as Webb showed, the EPS is also lessening the torch temps underneath that block. Something to watch going forward. Still makes things needle threaders, but maybe a bit more give available for the Jan 7-15 timeframe?