You think the storm at the end of the run would have been a whiff? Not arguing because I care what it showed, but I am curious how you get whiff from that chart.
Not to go too deep into this argument again, but what it showed was a hybrid...none of that closed h5 west of the mississippi crap. Not that it matters, since it will change 20 times.
"High SSTs in the Atlantic are why the northern stream is coming in so amped and why our 500mb closes off in Kansas and why the surface low tracks through PA."