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interesting ... it would be about 14 years again until a real october snow either would or chance take place in the general ne ... and since, about 1/2 the years in the last 22 of them have carried that as an at minimum threat if not realization.

well like i was telling Ray a moon or two ago ... there's nothing about the entirety of the state of the climate ( yet ) that suggests a 2015 february can't redux. even 50% of a redux would be a crushing win over these last 7 inches ... uh, i mean years of winters we've been boned by whether the indices align or not ...that's what i'm personally wondering. we may get more of the idiosyncratic or incongruous events from the excessive variability, week to week. heh ... could get the winter quota in 3 storms over 10 days and we're back to cargo shorts

i like how the bay area of san francisco got whacked by 90+ heat. it's very hard to do that there. that w--> e replacement flow through the golden gate straight is very difficult to stop and takes some pretty amazing circumstances to stop it. i've been out there when it was 101 on the eastern shore of the bay and we couldn't get over 70 down by the marina district. on the other side of the penn on the pac side it's in the 60s with pants flapping in the crushing onshore laminar flow. yet i think they've been close to 80 on the sand in this thing

a problem with this is idea above is considering the quasi decoupled tendencies. global patterns appear at times disconnected from enso forcing. this can happen at any time, ..depending on the total integral of influences, usually more transient. but the observations of it have been increasing over the last 10 years with some times even nino modes showing up during and post ninas and vice versa. if 'la nada' prevails this ensuing season, it seems logical that these notable excursion tendencies may also factor and screw up inferred models there, too

research is nearing the codification of a new enso mode ... 'la neutered' ...it's basically huge negative/positive departures, while the wholesale surrounding global medium behaves like which ever it is, it's completely ballless to motivate any response at all

i suspect what he meant was ... 'when was the last time all three months were individually below average' i don't mean to speak for torch tiger and i may not be right about that, but just in general ... often times in common vernacular folks will confuse aggregate vs qualitative

it's not very often you see a cool front approaching with a ne wind out ahead of it

check out this la la range euro solution. impressive 850 mb thermal spread n-s through the continent. it looks like a one of those early heat expulsions you get in april.

heh ... considering that the whole world put up the 2nd warmest sep in history ... not sure we can say 'due to +epo' as the singular cause for that but yeah, it wasn't hurting to have the pacific signal as such

it'll be less than that unfortunately for cold enthusiasts.

tough to argue

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01661-8

it's a'ight ... it's just been a long while since anyone's given ww's chode hairs a tug so felt morally obligated -

the thought had crossed my mind ..but i really suspect that's a standing order every autumn during this particular era of cc - yeah ...it's related to that forcing so anyone that wants to roll their eyes can summarily go f themselves. sick of dancing around other people's denial with diplomacy while the world races to the cliff -

+pna/-nao continues in both the production version/means, and the ensemble-based teleconnectors. interesting that the pac is stuck in that +wpo/+epo while the above persists. anyway ... the gfs (operational) is trying to sell 'blue' thickness intrusion/oscillatory pattern ... beginning by the end of the week. frost(s) would like take place on any interim night in that regime between ~ 9th and the 16th. the tendency to over exemplify base patterns in that time range, notwithstanding.

may not be appropriate for this thread ? japan set the 2nd warmest september since records began back in 1898 according to the meteorological agency. "But some regions, including eastern and western parts of mainland Japan, logged the highest ever average temperatures for September since comparable data began available in 1946, the agency added." given to the damning global surgence of warmer than normal just about anything that can be defined, i feel that cited statement is probably more important than the fact that this particular september was "only" the 2nd warmest ever. a completely chaotic timed cloudy day comes along enough to hide a 10th of a degree and we're enabling deniers - ( https://phys.org/news/2024-10-japan-hottest-september.html )

the article contains a broader perspective but just wrt to the bold above: yup... i've been writing about this phenomenon - or trying to raise attention - as to the 'synergistic heat wave' one in the same. you get some kind of harmonic feedback from the environment that is also not very well understood and/or not necessarily built into the modeling/leading indicators ... boom! the event exceeds expectations. but i also believe it is not just feed back from the physical enviroment, but i also see atmospheric harmonics taking place too. like rogue waves in the ocean as analogy, where multi scaled waves come into a constructive interference - the degree of amplitude tends arrive large and there goes edmond fitzgerald.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-helene-storms-dumped-whopping-trillion.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-anthropocene-1950s.html ( https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313098121 )

yet at the same time ... we're working thru a 3rd consecutive week of ne-e flow fisting sw out of a -nao (western limb) something like 90 percent of the time. even when the nao block waned during that time range ... some pos front or worthless decaying tropical garbage sw-s keeps the e flow active. it's a local eastern n/a effect that's making it 'seem' more autumn like but it's (typical for this region) fake i guess what i'm bitching about is that 850 thermal mean through this period would have led to sfc summer appeal the whole way if we could buy a f'n coffee break of wsw wind and minimum sun

models would tend to sniff out the pattern base, and then the error and biases will be too much of whatever the base is ... ex, if the "real" pattern basis is in a -pna ... the extended ranges will occasionally balloon heights too much. if the pattern base is +pna ... we get these -3 standard deviation trough plumbing to indianapolis which aren't necessary ... yet very likely looking to winter enthusiasts ( of course ) having said that, yeeeah the last several years ( decadal and papered, too - ) have shown a propensity for transition season blocking - both ends. october being one of those months...etc. it's become almost reliable.. a persistence that sort of automatically lends confidence to it being annoyingly chilly too early in the year. yay! it's a new paradigm. yeah yeah yeah, probably another in the compendium of other cc hammer to head aspects that people keep gaslighting themselves into believing are just the tickle shoulder taps of variability. but it is what it is... and, it's part and parcel to why we've been observing snow or snow supporting synoptics along approximately half the octobers since 2000, when the prior climate generation(s) never did ( usually). only to then fade seamlessly into a wind enraged mid tropospheric shear shitty winter ass blow pattern. it's really just becoming unbearable ... much to the chagrin of all these wide-eyed enthusiastic seasonal forecasts for up our down in temp or snow or rain or whatever... all these winters have straight line torpedoed right through those convincing walls of reasons, to the same justification for setting up an escape plan to somewhere in the southern hemisphere.

mixed feelings ... if winter results in just about anything other that what the average of the last 8 years have been, i'll be interested ( though uneasy ) in seeing what that has to offer if winter results in the same as the average of these last 8 years, i dream of enough disposable financial liquidity to flee somewhere else and start a new life

This was pretty interesting to see .. while warming up for disk golf this morning up on the hill at Sterling/Meadowbrook the sky filled with geese outta no where. Not like just some big flock. The sky was in a cackling aerial mass some 200 or even 300 of em. Kinda reminded me of one of the dystopian scenes where the sky fills with birds before the event. That’s a massive orchard complex up there and I’m wondering if it’s like a migration feed depots, because they arrived in waves of 50+ and started circling in möbius loops like they were looking for something. …Either way you know it’s not because winter’s coming …

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it's not a critique in any way ...more like reminder I suppose. But the increased deposition results are being observed everywhere. Obviously the above is was speaking to tropics so its just adding. Not directing this at you, Don - general read... but the atmospheric capacity to hold WV is increasing as a wholesale integral ( of course it has to be because cc is global condition). in short, warm air holds more wv; thus where ever it is raining ( snowing, sleeting or shitting ...) there's simply more water mass available to the machinery that is making it rain. Drier dynamic storms are becoming more rare. Clippers in the winter are snowing more for example - a classic dry dynamics system type. Mere thunderstorms are headlining for submerging a non-suspecting city. etc hurricanes a tougher parse outs because a rain bomb tc in 1976 can do a 40" job just as well. i think there's a fascinating study going on about why these ri's keep waiting to be within 300 miles of a coast before they happen. weird