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    Probably time to fire-up the winter discussion thread(the pre-thread anyway). Who has the mojo? The new Euro Seasonals look really good, and follows a typical Nino 500 heights progression for DJF.
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    LR forecast in the 3-5 week range have backed-off the warm-up some. Dare I say they look like fall?
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    The new CANSIPS shows(unfortunately) endless summer through September at least with summer backing off by October. DJF, just eyeballing, looks below normal for temps. Typical Nino progression on the CANSIPs re: winter. The August to early Sept heatwave is typical for Nino years. Let’s hope the model is missing the sharp switch to fall which should occur mid-late Sept....and smoothing likely may not allow for that type of specificity.
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    My neighbor has a tree through the side of his house. My parents are without power until Tuesday.
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    Some really bad storms in Kingsport tonight. Just checking w/ the TRI crew after that MCS moved through. Lots of trees down and many, many without power.
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    Some hints at an early start to winter in the Mountain West...or at least a very cold fall. Lots of variability on September modeling. The great thing about September is that average highs begin to drop quickly. I still think we see a sharp switch to fall by mid-late September. I could easily be wrong. I like looking at the MW region as it can sometimes give a hint to that first truly chill fall air mass. When the cold builds in MT, it will often slide this way(modified of course).
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    I am gonna start heading to the Plateau for the summer! LOL. Looks like the earlier (cooler) wx pattern from earlier this summer is about to return after a scorching hot week in NE TN. I am just glad that we are counting these hot days in terms of days and not weeks!
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    I think Kingsport might be one of the hottest place in E TN today. We have to be catching some downslope somewhere. Temps in town are ranging from 90-95F on wxunderground. Real feel right now at my place is 97F. Easily the hottest day of the summer here w/ worse to come later this week. On a positive note, we got a popcorn storm that parked right over western Sullivan/eastern Hawkins yesterday. Amounts ranged from 0.75-1.30" of much needed rainfall. We prob got about an inch of rain IMBY. Two blocks away - zip. That kind of rain storm. I was no fan of the marble size hail. Holston will know this....not sure it even rained at the bridge into our hood.
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    John, you have been living large this summer. TRI hasn't been too bad either... Mid 90s at TRi for much of the rest of the week according to point-and-click. We have hit 90(and only 90) 6x so far this month. This "should" be the worst week of summer, but LR modeling at the end of August is showing some potential for heat spreading eastward from the Plains. That is not unexpected. My guess is that we see a sharp cold front at some point during the last third of September which just ends summer on the spot. That is not exactly "going out on a limb" as that is seasonal climatology. But after multiple Nina summers lasting well into October, that would be a welcome change.
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    Ocean temps(lakes as well) can fickle fickle fickle. Wind could have turned the ocean over and created upwelling of colder water. It could just be an oddity within ocean currents. Fishermen will often look for the seam where colder water meets warmer water...even if that seam is a vertical one and not striated horizontally. Water temps are DEFINITELY cool in that area. Interesting share. 81F water is not warm in the summer given how shallow the water is there. https://coastalwatertemperatureguide-noaa.hub.arcgis.com
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    I came here debating whether to post this. Ha! Ha! Glad you posted it, Jax.
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    Interesting updates from NOAA today re: winter. Man, if I didn't know better, I would think they are banking on a front loaded winter which is exactly opposite of my own thinking. Interesting. Precip AN for each. Please be award these will change w/ each month, so I will try to delete the post later next month. Here is the link:
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    I taught his brother. Great family. Awesome song.
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    Easily the hottest day IMBY. Not sure if we are catching downsloping or what....but it is a furnace out there right now with the wind blowing at 90F. Feels like a hair dryer. Yard is fried. Looking forward to the rain during the next few days. We need it. Thankful for the few days of this that we have had all season.
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    Finally re-upped my model subscription. This must be what it is like to land a plane during fog. Computer takes over and you hope it finds the runway. Anyway, seasonal outlooks (you all know the drill with seasonal modeling) look the opposite of the last several winters, and that is to be expected given El Nino climatology. Normal to BN heights build into the East during January and February. Jeff has covered the rest of summer really well. Fall, looks seasonal which would be excellent given the "extended summers" of the past few years. As I noted somewhere (maybe this thread), it would not surprise me to see snow flying in the mountains on-time - which means later in October and early November. I still think we see something like a false start to winter, and then December is warm-ish. January and February look to favor Nino weather - cool(not excessively cold) temps and lots of cloudy/rain days. This is kind of the opposite of Nina winters which feature fewer chances for precip but more cold interaction. This is more like more precip w/ marginal air masses - but sometimes we score just due to more pitches in the pitch count. Of note, pretty big signal across modeling for the front range of the Rockies and Plains to fry in regards to temps during August.
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    Really great stuff from the MA forum and worth a read. Nice animation of the SSTs along the equatorial Pacific. Short of it, the El Nino is modeled to be basin wide by the beginning of winter. Well worth a read. Click the light blue header.
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    This is how crazy this summer has been. We are now to the point that we can say this. The days are getting shorter. Football season is roughly a month and a half away. We can now see fall on the Weeklies(though I can't see them yet as I haven resubscribed - soon though). We can halfway have a decent conversation about even the lead up to winter if one is willing to ignore the micro-scale features and just look at macro stuff like SSTs/ENSO, QBO, PDO, and pick your favorite seasonal teleconnection. So, there is now this to add to the mix...the first, non glacial ski slopes in the northern hemisphere likely open in less than 90 days. This probably more banter, but considering that the forum normally has posts during summer(but way more posters this summer!...are we finally a 12mos forum!?), I am going to post it. Live life to the fullest! But “winter is coming.” At least in Finland. Levi, the nation’s largest ski area, and Ruka, another one of the largest, both plan to open on October 6th, 2023, the first non-glacial resorts in the northern hemisphere to do so. That’s less than three months away. https://snowbrains.com/first-non-glacial-resorts-open-90-days/?fbclid=IwAR1-XFF4RU53BvRAZlrhHupNMOXuta95e6B4UXCq6M1SiBRer2VhqckHpt8
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    Yeah, we don't want an east based El Nino in my opinion...agree. I "think" I read that it is due to shift to mid-basin and west by mid-late winter. We REALLY need the PDO to switch. IMHO, that may be a greatly underrated metric.
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    About an inch of rain BN for TRI right now. It is isn't "drought dry", but it is getting dry. Hopefully, Thursday into Saturday gets us even again. 90F count for TRI now stands at....two for the summer. It is warm, but man, a nice departure so far from last summer. Let's hope that this weather holds. We are just about to the hottest part of summer....let's see what it does.
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    Check out this PDO data set, and then look at some of our favorite winters - positive or rising PDO for many of our modern great winters. I do wonder if there is a connection between the drivers for the +PDO and the QBO? https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/pdo/
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    Yeah, oddly the current QBO has the potential to get winter started early which is waaaaay against Nino climatology. No idea if it can overcome that, but that drop is quick. We definitely don't want it to bottom out early. I do wonder if it maybe had something to do with that cool June that we just experienced - I have no knowledge about QBO and its correlation to summer temps. I just know that many of our really good winters had it going negative during mid to late fall. PDO is a big wild card as well as mentioned earlier. Need it to push towards neutral and into positive range - key for big winters in E TN.
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    81% humidity while out running this morning. Woof!
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    Yeah, the streak is over at TRI as well. We hit 90 for an hour or two yesterday. Given how oppressive last summer was, it still doesn't fell hot. It looks like we still have 4-5 more days until the pattern "moderates" next weekend. What we don't want to see is an established ridge over Bermuda. I don't see that yet. However, given the frequency of hurricanes during El Nino years later during summer, one has to think some sort of EC ridge establishes which will let tropical systems move towards coastal areas. But really, I don't have a crystal ball. Right now, the pattern appears to be BN air masses moving from Canada into the eastern 2/3 of the United States w/ intermittent strong AN air masses pushing out of the SW and/or Texas. But really, I can't complain at all about the current weather pattern. In 14-15, during winter this was the pattern during January and February. Replace MCS w/ northwest flow...it was glorious here. Easily, it was the most snow I have seen outside of 85-86. I doubt this continues into next winter, but......the pattern that we just exited(Mountain West winters) seemed to last for nearly 8 years.
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    Sitting at 73 here at midday. Lots of rain this morning. We had some thunder, but nothing like what points west did(John and Knoxville area).
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    Will it happen? TRI has gone a whopping 24 straight days with below normal temps. We have yet to hit 90 this year. As Wagner noted, if we stay below 90 today, the month of June is a shutout for 90 degree temps. It is going to be a close call today at TRI as to whether both of those streaks continue. An MCS is rolling through now at 5:50AM.
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