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It's not worth discussing deterministic impacts - ...for the multi-syllabic challenged, that means no use even guessing specifics affects, It's really a place holder for the time being. It's the same signal we've been monitoring for the past week, but is still unfortunately too deep in the extended to start taking form. That rendition above is typical of this range in autumn ...where the models lobe the warm over top, and then eventually seclude warmth - it almost looks like a hybrid storm in that pressure layout - like what happened in 1991 when the core went caney

Definitely some ominous looking characters in that 12z GEF member line-up ...

Not a bad take, but it's not a matter of "weather" dangerous hot and cold extremes get reported. It is necessarily ( or should be ) whether these are deemed a threat, nothing else. I have ideas why they have not been added to the headline list, generations ago. Firstly, it doesn't appear to me, as I've read historical accounts and come by way of annuls ..et al, there really was much limitation on awareness going all the way back through history - there are in fact vivid accounts of both hot and cold impacts upon civility, from monetary to life, dating back many generations. To your thinking: 'Available observation and report' - yes ... tech evolution has engulfed us in a vastly advantaged awareness compared to say 100 years ago. And, it is true, awareness does feed-back on policy. Of course. But, the deadly heat waves and cold waves of yore, are in the yore - that means there was awareness, regardless - My longer "hot take" : The problem was originally due to the human condition of threats tending to belay, if not failing to elicit responses, unless they more dramatically appeal to the corporeal senses. Otherwise, they are deemed less urgent, thus ...not prioritized as such. It's really a biological distinction. We can't tell a horse to run away from a wild fire. But, if they see the orange plasma dancing along the distant line they perhaps instinctively turn and high-tale it. We hope humans are smarter than horses ... despite so many frustrating evidences .. But unfortunately, there is proportional response triggering mechanism that exists in us in simulacrum. Not to get into a protracted digression on the matter ...but it is one of the major proponents in this whole Climate Change denial - which, a goodly part of that moral failure is not because we are bad people. Some? sure... You have sociopaths and deviants and crack pots in any population. But really, the above human condition strands the majority in stasis of looking around, and that gets in the way of proactive "heedance." It is and was always normal to question, and the evolved circumstance of nature's built in biological observation --> trigger circuitry being reliant on seeing the "orange plasma," that lends to a convenience to disagree. 40% of the world's 7 1/2 billion brains need that biological trigger of seeing - seeing is believing. Now, the seeing is changing ... as desiccated regions, wild fires, rising ocean, and synergistic heat waves are becoming pronounced enough, begins to appeal. But, I sometimes wonder if the 'edginess' of human intelligence is not evently distributed, where some are either natively or circumstantially advantageous. They may be better equipped to perceive threats based upon higher order intelligentsia, and not having to wait upon hearing the report of the rifle fire - which if you follow this metaphor, usually by the time one hears that report, the bullet had already arrived - ooh. We are taught since very little that observation is needed to corroborate interpretation of reality - thus, we know it is truly real. So that "40%" above ... can you see or sense that paradox? In the case of our horse above, they are in fact not doing anything until the "see" that reality - it's the same mechanics. What we do to sophisticate that kind of processing as humans, is more polish done in the higher order intelligence framework that horses simply do not posses - but it is rooted in the same. You know it's interesting to me ... I have expounded upon the following to Liberty' and Rclab et al, about this catch-22 aspect of humans extraordinary evolutionary leap. One that I believe is still occurring actually, for better or worse aside - verdict definitely still out on that one. But.. the gist of it is, humanity evolved the capacity for ingenuity, which really spans the spectrum of innovation to analytic problem solving. That incredible advent in Earth biologic history was not proportionally evolving any necessary means to connect with it. That creates a kind of gap problem there, one that may fill with tragedy ...as we arbor our way to our own extinction for ( perhaps ...) suffering an imbalance between vision, and willingness/instinct/ability to abide those warnings. But anyway, until recently, one could not see or feel Globe warming, not when the "alarm" was the sound of mere decimal-integrated increases from one year to the next. Back on the original subject ..heh! Prior generations would naturally perceive a stove piped tornadic specter twisting through a neighborhood like an errant egg-beater as requiring a certain import, before considering 102/74 as dangerous. But set that in statically for 5 days, might take the same toll on health and wellness but its just not triggering.. Slower moving, invisible killer. Have you ever heard of the medical mantra about 'Hypertension is the silent killer' ? It's like that... The Earth in Climate crisis is like an Earth with Hypertension - and the metaphor couldn't be more apropos when considering the both Hypertension and the Climate crisis, are dealing with elevated numbers. Anyway, the headline list is really an old school short-sighted aspect that got institutionalized is all, and it's stupid to be blunt.

Operational runs struggling with potential out that far for two reason: One the range ... duh.. But compounding that, massive pattern mode shift/implication - operational versions clearly struggling to hide immensely overloading potential. A little fun by saying it that way, but I do feel as Will and I have been advertising for days, that 18th thru 24th ( likely biased in the latter days of that range ) is bright via multiple disciplinary methods for assessing longer lead threats. This run of the Euro has little hope of evolving as is, but given to the multi day, multi mass field modality, as well as a bit of cross guidance support only helping ( sig -EPO collapsing into a +PNA ), .. in all, the run underscores the inherent volatility. ...something quite significant lurks, above the base climate signal. It's a Archembault restoration event ... It's going to get cold folks, and the baroclinic canvas in the EPS and GEFs in that 20 to 25th is really quite fantastic.. Highly volatile.

It's almost like Northern New England cheats photographic competition - like slipping into the marathon at mile 24. By shear value of everywhere one looks, to those unfamiliar are arrested by what takes anyone and everywhere else in the U.S. ... extensive planning in prep, cam tech, just to get a chance to accidentally capture the same aesthetic. I mean, Ansel Adams would snap off a thousand photos before capturing that perfect instant of synergy, where sight and light combined in a fleeting instant, to expose the suggestion of a hidden divinity to nature - if lucky, goes to to print. NNE? meh. Lol. The local denizen mill about and carry on in their lives under nature's frescoes. In every direction one is addled by an eye-candy house of mirrors. Probably? - they are quite bored with it. "Yeah yeah..." It wouldn't shock me if that was the case. I mean... I was an impressionable wide-eyed lad when I moved from Michigan to the Cape Ann way back in the day. Yes ...Kalamazoo Michigan, with its industrially vacated half-size Worcester metropolis serving as an attractive rest stop along the booming Chicago Detroit drug and gang trade route, what a charming island it was ... set out amidst cow-shit and corn silos. Welcome to early 1980s southern Michigan. Truly riveting everyday expose's of natural visual arts, no doubt! What had first stunned me, with rocky headland vistas over taking the vast expanse of the stormy seas .. it was indescribable. A year later? Tourists coming to town to take in the same awe-inspiring settings and expose's couldn't shut up about sooner. Ugh.

I'd wonder, if not caution even ... As the whole-scale gradients ( the N hemisphere - ) perennially steepen here over the next month, particularly nearing January, if that might exhibit at mitigating disruption on the perceived coupling. It may still couple in smaller quadratures heading deeper into January, but be limited to those regions. The problem is ... the stronger gradient wind everywhere, as a whole-scale integral, is a destructive interference - it doesn't allow those mechanics to be as instructive on the Rossby -wave geometry. This is likely why some of the other warm and cool ENSOs seemed too weakly coupled over the last 10 years - a time during in which we've seen a preponderant result of fast hemispheric flow regimes, not likely coincidence. It could very well be that we are seeing an apparent coupled state, now, while it is physically accessible - but that accessibility may break down. Just something to consider -

It's interesting to see this virtual radar rendition with that dynamic punch-through cold ptype, along the spine of the Greens like that... I was thinking this morning this situ looked like a low melt level thunderstorm potential. Sky gets dark.. wind and large drops sweep in with a hard-to-tell mix of grapple-hail. Some cat paw fat rain toward the back ends before ending... That would be more so for the >700' but it's pinging cold rain elsewhere. Also, this may bring down some wind momentum - it was looking more isallobaric pulsed a few days ago, but altho still potent, the S/W/mechanics are not quites as ominous. Still, with DVM with downdrafting those could combine for a wind threat I would think.

It does ( still ..) to me as of this morning... For the general reader: I had posted this same subject matter .. ( should have started a separate thread ), but with my proclivity to languish on too long ( ha ) .. - Twitter is killing this site's art, frankly. Anyway, I stated ( blw ) the 18-24th is a synoptic vulnerable time. Either a series or singular event of importance looks more plausible than the background climate signal - however, I can certainly see biasing toward the latter half of that chunk of days, sure. The period in question is during pattern transition; that is when we look for 'corrective' events take place along, identified by the inflection of the ensemble means/curves. Both the EPS and to some lesser ( albeit not zero order ) degree the GEFs, have are orienting the spatial layout out of 500 mb anomalies, into a -EPO/ quasi -EPO... ioa the D6-9 range. Suddenly we see operational Euro and GFS runs with D10 850 mb < -20 C plumes in Canada? Not an accident. All of which the ensemble means of both then relay that into a period of modest, albeit crucial rise in the PNA out around the 20-24th. Getting too long again.. .

18th-24th

EPO cold load into the Can Shield. It's been a recurring model -run theme now going back 2 or 3 days of Euro oper ...with other models in aggregate more than less on board> EPS: https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=eps&p=500h_anom&rh=2021111200&fh=240&r=nh&dpdt=&mc= ...less impressive but loading still is the GEFS: https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=gefs&p=500h_anom&rh=2021111200&fh=240&r=nh&dpdt=&mc= Today's warm wash with west frontal wall is typical of a pre -EPO load event. What is interesting is that this is 'too far' in advance really for that... But it still reminds of it. It's almost as though the stretched, progressive speed characteristic of the field is maybe skewing that but that's hypothesis, more suggestive than evidentiary ... Still we also juggle anticipation for muting anomalies tendency, moving deep range into mids, too - but... it appears the Pacific wants to be in the AB phase ( east of the Dateline) so that adds to the over-arcing theme as having confidence... Shades of Thanks Giving 2018 with a cold whip? it may be out there... but it's vastly too early for any clue about embedded feature(s). I still see 18 to 24th for a corrective event or series achieving that. The fast flow does lend to pearling -

Yeah... that distinction of "Harvey being the only one" is a matter of [apparently] public history of the era - not my personal view. Just sayn'. Personally, ...I was not a part of the SNE zeitgeist of 1978 in all honesty. I was living in adolescence in Kalamazoo Michigan, really too young to have any cultural awareness at all. I was quite young, but old enough to remember the Cleveland Super Bomb incidentally, and recall its magnificence vividly to this day. As an aside, I always thought it almost ... spiritually significant that I experienced that historic monster back there and whence, had no idea what happened here just 10 days later that year... only to move here five years after that to a region equally enamored with annuls so eerily similar. I don't know which storm was worse. My family moved en masse to this region of the country early in '84. Some have stayed ...some have gone again onto newer realms after reaching adulthood. I've stayed and endured - so far. I've gathered over the years, be it exposure to historical write-ups, or verbal accounting of the mid 1980s here and there ( which mind you, were only 6 to 10 years removed from that event, at that time), that of the major networks at the time ... NBC/ABC/CBS, WHDH affiliate's newly appointed rock star singularly nail it. Now, ...there seems to be this sideways looking need to question that ever since I made mention of it ... it is what it is? To that I can only say: Keeping in mind, there were not a cornucopia of different options to an unwitting civility back then. Not nearly the exposure was available that we have access to now. It seems entirely obvious to me, there was/is always going to be dissenting opinions of what the storm was going to be. I suspect the renditions I have read and/or accounting et all, is just the limited general public access and awareness to those viewpoints.

Yeeeah ... the 'mental conditioning' you're mentioning is more after the fact, though - a subsequent consideration, sure. To mold the minds of ...shall we say, lesser orders, doesn't exactly take a "Clockwork Orange" classic. I was speaking to the dilemma of unequal intellectual ownership. Getting into the why? That [ probably/actually] requires a whole 'nother multi-disciplined approach - LOL. But among a myriad of consequences, manipulation is certainly one of those. I mean it's a fuzzy distribution out there where sociological constraints both positively and negatively re-enforce biology of I.Q. - in both directions, too. Good luck... Causes aside, at any given scalar point in time, civility is comprised of "intelligence-variance" that is vast. I described this the other day ? The distinction between dolphin to dolphin, and chimp to chimp, are there ... but tend to be nuanced. Whereas in humans those differences are hugely demonstrative. The distribution is not ubiquitous, and when smaller segments out-wit the whole of any system... that comes with decidedly more serious consequences - particularly when [tongue in cheek] "moral flexibility" is far in way more ubiquitous in human nature than adherence to any doctrine in that matter. If one thinks otherwise, they are in the "lesser order" We could get into the philosophy of 'what is intelligence,' too. Heh, burn incense over it. But keeping it simple: most cannot, will not, or are natively just not capable of neuroplasticizing their way to the likes of Mozart, a shimmering genius [ likely ] inept in the company of Einstein. Neither of whom were very interested in being "Jack The Ripper" ...And sometimes in between these extremes, there are those that painted frescoes, and wrote about the soul. Meanwhile, "densely" packed in between the gaps of these rarer examples? - the toiling quagmire of everyone else, where perceptions of urgency and needs turns the Globe.

No it’s cuz I had my prostate removed.

Two runs in a row with -EPO in the operational Euro' extended. That aside, seems in general the operational GFS/Euro are coalescing around the colder vision, perhaps sooner than the last 10 days of the month, but hold pending future consistency. Nothing historic, but the 850 mb metric suppresses S of the OV, entering week 2 ( 160+ hrs), and stays there, whilst Canadian reservoir replaces warm with cool anomalies. With a neutral-neg PNA flipping modes to neutral-positive during the period, and seeing more AB circulation type spanning the N-Pac in the EPS and GFS means, that sends a cooling signal into the Canadian Shield to match above. ..surprising agreement actually.. It may be setting the table for a series or singular event of more significance between the 18th and 24th.. That hyper bomb in the GFS is less likely veracious but... I do think it is a synoptic instability suggestion .. quasi Archembaultian deal. I suggest there is above 'normal model error' probability for something during that period - obviously it's going to challenge the tolerance thresholds LOL . ..ho man.. Sometimes we hate doing this extended lead threat assessing...cuz ya get all lubed up during the plot development but the movie is eternally boring waiting for it to happen. One thing we should bear in mind as the month ages on... The flow is manifesting fast tendencies ...(here we go again) a characterization that has plagued most winters in the last 10 years. Separate discussion topic as to why, but... speed saturation, with over-packed isohypses counts, stresses deterministics at all temporal scales. I think - in part - that is why there is a tendency for the models to over market.

Back in 2004 he did presentation at Ball hall up at UMass Lowell. He went through the day to day leading ...anecdotally, but had also slide projector to scaffold the discussion... It was pretty fantastic. He described in nuanced fashion ... sort of brought you to the psychology of being 'the only one', in an era where and when the technology ( modeling .. ) was really quite primitive to what we take for granted now - heh... you get my meaning. It was scary and risky - and being that we were mets and met students primarily in attendance, we knew of history of the technology. So his rendition was legit and genuine of motif. Still, he felt too confident to back down, right up to the day before. Then...it happened... morning dawned on the day of that snow wall you described ( he did too - ). Dreaded scud clouds raced west, due west actually... straight off the ocean under a thickening fore-canopy of slate gray elevated ceilings. Not a good sign - ...scud are liquid and tend to signify an elevated warm layer. His heart sunk. Because even though there was that crazy 1050 mb high pressure N of MN, with its mighty arm squarely and massively extending to N of Maine, we all know what an E trajectory off the water means... But, as the wall came in, and the storm was entering bombogenesis phase, the wind backed while accelerating by textbook; the game was afoot! Boom time... He was funny, it wasn't like 'see' at all. It was a sigh of relief - that was the impression I got.

Yes... but, they are using that argument against the majority population, where is inscrutably insufficient of measure or mental pedigree to analytically parse and categorize ... a processing that needs to happen in order for the individual ( and the integrals of masses, therefrom ...) to go, "wait a seconds -"

It would be cool to see those model runs. … I wonder if they’re out there somewhere, some long vacated dusty office in a file cabinet under fluorescent rail lights that haven’t buzzed to life in 32 years. - seems there was similar error on both to biases too far E, but verified west

Wind event

I have my doubts the atmosphere will be coupled. leave it that -

There's other models and a fuller manifold of metrics to consider... just commenting on the last several GFS ( operational ) cycles, that looks like steepening CAA-related lapse rates, while there is exquisite mass restoration mechanics going on.. As is, in those runs, it's an abrupt light wind to turbines.. Advisory would be first guess but as gets closer ...who knows.

That's a sneaky headline wind event there ... betwixt 06z and 14z Sunday morning with that weird ANA-cyclone hybrid. It's a lowered pressure anomaly prior to the baroclinic axis and wave as it approaches, so there's little restoration of mass; then abruptly/rapidly it continues thru and departs. The combination of starting at the depth of a pressure well with incoming higher sfc pressure superposes those acceleration vectors. That's an impressive isallobaric wind potential there these recent GFS looks. Symbolic too ... that front/wave sort of heralds in the approaching step down interval, so it comes in after many days of lower wind flux anomalies by abruptly moving a lot of mass very quickly, and when it is done, we are likely to be in a solid snow column.. At least for a moment. heh If that next Clipper like deal kinks up enough, I'd through Ptype out the window - that's snow in that hydrostatic profile/850 thermal layout/synoptic awareness... Anyway, turbine roars may come in like a p-wave and it's too bad that doesn't happen in daylight because the sky is likely to be festooned with oak leaves. lol

..he said tongue in cheek looking off sideways. Of course they do - but we play the game

I will tell you with high personal confidence, if those operational GFS hydrostatic heights, and 850 mb temperature schemes are correct, its green QPF will tend to be snow actually. Probably right up to I-95, too - ...same would be true for late Saturday in the far interior .. flash over to brief 'chutes. - sorry I had to fix this...got the two "mixed" haha. I also find that backside ANA-cyclone hybrid that's been gaining identity for late Saturday interesting. Man - fast flow high potency circulation type is a error juggle, not doubt. Euro has all features in question but didn't opt into a faster/deeper detonation of either the Saturday or next week - either way is equally likely ...

That's related to the warmer ( pun ) truth right there ( bold ). Solar voltaic technologies can be advanced much further ... So too can battery tech - where so in concert with networking and load balancing, wind is still quite infantile. These are unexplored fully, and Hydro isn't even in discussion. Jesus, the oceanic tide dependability is a gravitational engine that is limitless. In other words, their capacity has not been reached. Not even close really. But, the truth is, they don't want to be reached - that's the elephant in every debate hall, water cooler discussion, or social media platform there is. Opposition has vested interests that rely upon traditional modes, and thus really it's a form of "protectionism" - in a more open definition of what the word really means. Instead of tariffs and/or limitations on trade to protect internal economic interests, in this sense they are limiting "trades of information" in order to protect their own internal economic interests... Anyway, it is also a typical strategy to masquerade as prophet of infeasibility and hardship - one is not true, the latter is tough shit, you don't have any choice. They lose me at economic hardship arguments. Simple reason: There is no economics in a future where they don't exist, and climate holocaust means that. They are simply not connecting with that reality. They may as well just cut out the smoke-screening of their rationale and just admit, they don't see climate change as a legit threat. Many of these fields of research ( or where implement into physical use) are still primitive compared to how far they can be advanced. Relying on the right-now scalar capacity to foot their arguments is wantonly short-sighted.