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For some reason this plays in my head like that speech from trainspotting Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f--king big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of f--king fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f--k you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f--king junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f--ked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroinsnow?

I think Mack moved to Ohio. He can enjoy all those cutters now. I was wondering what happened to Cold Rain. And also Warm Nose.

I guess its events like that that make your commute worth it.

Sorry to stare: not because of NAM extrapolation. It's just that you remind me of someone famous. I bet if you weren't wearing a mask I could figure out who it is.

Going to hurt to see my Dolphins sit at home. Man if they hadn't dropped that game to Denver...

Someone posted this same frame in the SE forum and it made me raise my eyebrows. Could that high ridge be suggestive of the mythical cross polar flow?

Doesn't it compete with GFS for second place with general verification scores?

Question for anyone. How does confluence impact geopotential height?

bootleg snowflakes.

Bootleg.

So is there some sort of inter-seasonal memory? I had never heard that.

They lost contact. The whole country was crushed under the weight of that ginormous high.

Actually there were widespread snow flurries in NC on Christmas day as a result of the forcing from that Mega-front. I saw some in Old Fort NC (just east of Asheville) and my parents saw some in Hope Mills (just southwest of Fayetteville). Of course, nothing stuck but it was still nice to see on Christmas.

Third straight year of torch for the first 1/3 to 1/2 of January. It's becoming a New Year's tradition.

Which three are those? I assume you include the NAO and AO. What is the third? PNA or EPO? I am assuming PNA because the EPO looked stuck positive for the foreseeable future when last I saw a few days ago.

The blocking could disappear leaving only the positive anomalies.

I almost feel that the thread was too positive this afternoon. Time for the 0Z runs to ruin it.

Someone posted a twitter link where Ji had posted the first comment. I clicked on his name and went to his twitter feed. That is not what I expected Ji to look like. It did amuse me that his handle is "jhatem". https://twitter.com/jhatem

I like that little tiny cool anomaly over the UP of Michigan. They are going to get their snow regardless.

Well luckily, one of these seems to be on tap. It's a crap shoot as to whether it will help or not. But it seems to be coming, nonetheless.

No, If we are screwed, I would prefer to know it ahead of time, so I appreciated it. It was still sad, though. Speaking of Mersky, I haven't seen him around lately.

I am not disputing your larger point about the danger of the Pacific Doom Blob (it still haunts my dreams from last year). You have mentioned our unfortunate antecedent conditions. Maybe this look CAN produce, but only if it is not preceded by a month-long continent-wide torch? It would be interesting to go back and look at the preceding month or two before the snow periods of 1993, 1996, and 2010.

My soul still has the wrinkle marks from where it was crushed by that post.

Last sustained cold to affect me was late December 2017/early January 2018. That was a legit cold period here, and I think up you guys way as well. Not sure where it's source was. Also, there was a pretty nice outbreak that hit the Midwest in Jan 2019, but never made it here.