I may be wrong, but isn't a gradient pattern, Caribbean Ridge, compressed flow, etc.....part and parcel of a Nina regime?
In other words, tough to get a stemwinder?
This may be wishful thinking on my part, but I wonder if an extended MJO stay in the COD is just what the doctor ordered. Strong forcing seems to have forced jack-shit...in all octants.
Was Jerry hacked?
a. That doesn't sound like him.
b. I don't think Jerry would commit word usage butchery by misusing the word "infers" in that manner.
Tip will love this from today's NYT:
On Wednesday, the ground speed of a flight from Las Vegas to London hit 814 m.p.h., close to the subsonic speed record of 835 m.p.h., which was set by a flight from New York to Lisbon last February.
Today started with scattered cirrus that lowered and thickened all day. 18f. If this were the 1960s, I would swear that a major snowstorm was knocking on the door.
Bastardi...way back when he was a real met, would say the following about situations like this:
"The models want to put the low on the polar boundary, when in fact it will track along the arctic boundary".
I have no idea if there is any veracity to this now, but he was often right then....