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Gravity Wave

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  1. Very impressive, especially given the far greater UHI effect now compared to back then.
  2. Between the air temperature and the wind it was very uncomfortable being out and about in city today. I wish we could get more classic fall days (clear with highs in the 50s) but fall seems to be becoming increasingly abbreviated with all the AN Septembers and Octobers and BN Novembers.
  3. To be fair, the "good" pattern last year was on the weeklies beyond 2 weeks. It never showed up on the OP models and kept getting pushed back on the weeklies. First it was late January, then 1st week of Feb, then President's Day, and then it finally locked in just in time to ruin the spring.
  4. The pattern over the past few years has also been that the Arctic sea ice recovers much less rapidly in the Alaska/Chukchi Sea area compared with the rest of the arctic, which I imagine will help keep sustaining that positive anomaly off Alaska. Could this be a self-reinforcing cycle that will contribute to a more sustained western ridge/eastern trough pattern over the US during the winter?
  5. If the GFS is right we'll keep building on that negative anomaly for another week after that. Moderation comes around the 20th.
  6. The solar minimum definitely helps, and should continue to help for the next few winters as well.
  7. Lots of flash flooding reports in PA with this line. 2-3" being dropped on saturated ground in a short period of time.
  8. This outbreak today isn't going to be a joke from the Mid Atlantic. Second straight year with a big autumn severe outbreak in the region after last October's tornado outbreak in PA.
  9. I think this has been discussed a lot on here before but isn't the general consensus that the sample size of winters with notable October-November snowfalls for the NYC area is too small to draw any meaningful conclusions about how such a winter will turn out?
  10. I think the all time record low temp for the lower 48 in October was set at Peter Sinks, Utah yesterday (-35!!!), breaking the record from 1917. It might get broken again tomorrow morning too.
  11. Ignoring the low skill areas, this would imply that the CFS sees a +PNA, correct? Or do the higher anomalies in Alaska indicate that the ridge will be too far west?
  12. The stalled patterns this decade are really something. Imagine if the next stuck pattern is a Midwest trough to go with our WAR.
  13. A more west-based version of 2014-15 wouldn't be that bad. The trough that year was too far east and so the Mid Atlantic got fringed repeatedly.
  14. Great coup by the NAM but the failure here by the other models is concerning.
  15. New Euro and UKMET seasonal snowfall outlooks are out. Long story short: December is a disaster, January is below average, and February is great. I don't trust these at all but they fact that both are in broad agreement is somewhat interesting. https://www.bennollweather.com/ukmet https://bennollweather.com/ecmwf
  16. That developing system in the Gulf looks like it's going to rob us of our last chance of hitting 80 this year. If you believe the 12z GFS there aren't even any 70s on the horizon.
  17. The NAM is wetter than the HRRR but it seems to better reflect the radar so I'd lean towards it.
  18. Definitely a nowcasting situation. Good thing it's not winter!
  19. Euro is the clear outlier on the rain front, everything else is widespread 1.5-2"+.
  20. Definitely more rain than I expected here. There was a nice gust as I walked into work but the winds have generally been tame.
  21. Man if this was in January we'd be going crazy with these massive shifts inside 100 hours.
  22. It was cruel, and it only got worse when our perfect pattern arrived just in time to ruin the spring.
  23. Loving the cool temps today. As for this winter, I don't envy those who are putting forecasts out. The tangle of factors and the consistent failures of long-range modeling make it dangerously close to a waste of time, imo. If we get to Thanksgiving and the Euro Weeklies are showing a massive ridge for New Years then I might start to get excited for a big winter.
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