I admit to being a fainter, but I try to keep my spells off of the board.
That being said, I am only able to devote a tiny percentage of the time to this hobby that I would like right now so I depend on this board for pretty much all my LR information. I'm actually going to try to make myself a little chart to encapsulate a subjective opinion the status of how good or bad the pattern looks on the two primary ensembles (GEFS, EPS). To keep it apples-to-apples I am only going to ignore the 06Z and 18Z GEFS, and just consider at the 00Z and 12Z runs.
So my plan is to fill in this chart with values from 1 - 10, with 1 being last January and 10 being the best pattern you can imagine.
I accept any and all suggestions for numbers
00Z GEFS 00Z EPS
Day1 - 5 3 3
Day 6 - 10 5 5
Day 11-15 7 1