Typhoon Tip

now... just need it to go ahead and unzip ..bifurcate and landslide, sending a seismic wave that rears some 900' up the EC's bays and estuaries...

Yeah,... we create a cultural stigma about not being Joe-independent maverick, chisel jawed muscle clad revered this, or female sex gods with super power that, all by the age of 20 in Americana vision, then create an economic social structure that for 97 % ( or whatever vast majority it is) of the rearing population, that is provisionally impossible without crime. Lol -

What I think is interesting is that the classic model of the +NAO leading/ .. conducting MDR, is failing to relay TCs west before succumbing either to shear or recurve. That former mode of the circulation tends to favor both. But we're losing Peter ( most likely ...) to shear, and rose appears destined to either join the westerlies or wonder aimlessly over the eastern limb of the Sargasso Sea.. 98L comes through the birthing canal less than 10 deg from the Equator, and still we hedge whether it makes the key slot lat/lon. Noted, this morning's guidance pops back west but, doing so when the NAO is negative.. These are more at anti corollary behaviors. There could the a 'spatial lag' so to speak. The NAO isn't schedule to flip signs until about 4 days from now. It'll be in free fall at that time if the CPC's latest guidance is correct. I wonder if the deeper MDR isn't "sensing" the exertion of the NAO phase change by D4. Maybe in this sense, that still delivers 98L, west. Either way, both Peter and Rose were red headed neglected by the +NAO either way. Lol

Preaching to the choir perhaps ... but, I have impassioned that message regarding the health and safety aspect of "big heat," as well as my frustration in why it is not recognized in the pantheon of weather threats: Floods, Tornadoes, Blizzards, Hurricanes, and Lightning, for years. There should be, temperature extremes, added to that list. ...and it is empirical too! Heat kills more annually, direct or indirect, than all these combined. Why? It's because what we've floated in conjecture. The average human being responds to what they see, hear ...smell, feel etc. The 'threat' is not perceived as significant unless it "awes" one of these corporeal "proofs". The specter of heat is invisible - ...It can certainly be felt. But the 92 F cumulative morass takes time. And that time seems to lower it's value too much. But, you know, it's shamefully limiting. Because we have the ability to engineer our robots to another planet yet have to rely upon such primitive modal response mechanisms. LOL.. kind of funny almost ...

I'm assuming that bold statement is in deference to me? Just from the last page or so of posts ... I think you mean me. If so, no - I do not preferentially single out winter. What I have written at length about regards the autumn and springs more so than the winter, actually. I subsequently advanced my own hypothesis: The culprit might be the HC stuff. Just to be clear... There's a lot of complexity there - it's hard to paraphrase it all. Autumn: Seasonal lapsing and the plausible cause being connected to the warming at lower latitudes. It's a bit counter intuitive, but a warmer lower latitude might bring earlier freeze snaps to the Lakes to New England. Fantastic short term recoveries, too. When a cold incursion relaxes, the warmth is still biding time ... still available to the return flow sequencing. I look back at the last 20 .. particularly 10 years, and indeed we've been situating snow events at unusual times relative to the previous climate inference, then encountering warm departures of almost equal magnitude. The gist of the way it works is, the the hemisphere is getting gradient rich earlier in the autumn, because cooling in the Ferrel regions is "out-pacing" the lagged HC in the south(s). That increased gradient, speeds up the flow ... perhaps small, but very crucially. That faster flow, by wave mechanical-physics, will tend to organize into Rossby waves ( conservation of inertia organizes waves when occurring in rotating medium ) - this lowers the entropy of summer, earlier. ....That all means we see more coherent +PNAP( -PNAP) with more mulit- non-hydrostatic height contours defining, and along with, we start seeing CAA earlier into mid latitudes. Spring: ...again, just hypothesis, but this happens similarly. As the winter lower heights back off, and the mean polar jet begins to move N ...it is holding onto velocities longer, such that we may be witnessing a tendency to regress [temporarily] to +PNAP structures. Most of my suppositions about winters were attempts to offer insights, only. Perhaps the reason ENSO influences have demonstrated less physically observable presence in the general circulation modes at hemispheric scales, with increasing distraction, spanning the last 20 years. Maybe the HC is supplanting the ENSO signal. "It seems like something you just throw out there when you feel like it." ...I admit I tend to be cavalier at times, with prose that is droll - an affectation that may be missed. I can see how this may be miss-construed. I also think that the implications of even meeting the above conjecture 'half way' as being certainly possible, means that the the 'institutionally' accepted, seasonal ( lead) forecast methods, may not be as reliable, and there is a some preservation tactics in play to invalidate and protect those. People don't like change. They will hesitate. Most new ideas are seen as maverick and when they buck the zeitgeist, you get apprehension...I get it. Normal. - But rest assured, the HC, albeit entirely real, my own point of view in how it effects matters: I am not pinning that on any source - although...I may borrow from them to corroborate my thinking, I always site my sources. I would also caution that the lateral size of the HC, in terms of where its northern amorphous boundary becomes the westerlies, may also be seasonally compressed at times, a circumstance that is would be more likely observable in winter. It doesn't mean it isn't there, lurking and influencing. The times of excessive wind gradient and wind velocity is a mechanical conversion/conservation. That paper excerpt doesn't address that valid question. It's merely observational - I'll reread it but it didn't leap out at me.

Boy, now there's a rock act that really carved out an multi-generational impact as a seminal game changer .. Sometimes when I feel like I do on this, well, life, I like to go and find someone else's embarrassment. Lol. Like, some flash in the pan, "super relevancy" ...really more of a firecracker in a mine-field of historic a-bombs, and go relish in the tedium of their delusion of grandeur. I haven't verified them just yet.. but usually when you see 'years active' with a big gap like this, 1995–2001 [ ] 2017–present, ...that means their money and fame ran out. So their selling the same old pap, hoping nostalgic cheese will rein back their numbers - if they can't rely upon younger new generational expose, one's the as usual, believe whatever is new to them, must be new always. We'll see -

I had a 47 here over the last month twice... Once in late August and then a couple weeks ago. This morning was 47-49 around town. We are situated in the 'Nashoba Valley' here in Ayer. In fact, town hall on GPS is 223' elevation. My commute to the office in the autumn and winter, typically will demonstrate that 'cold valley' phenomenon, with as much as a 10 F difference between my driveway and the climb-out nearing the Rt 2/ I-91 interchange. I haven't driven the route now in 18 months due to this pandemic wfh standardization, but .. I can definitely imagine that this morning would have been one of those where it was colder down here than up on those interior ridge lines. How much, who knows. The extended guidance ( day 7 - 10 ) really grinding as hard as they can. By day's 9 and 10, all three, Euro, GGEM and GFS have worked hard in the days leading to erode in a +PNAP synoptic layout. To go with, they have the coolest 850 mb regime since last spring, sagging from the eastern Lakes thru New England. Usually when they work that hard in that time range, something else ends up happening. I'm not sure any of that would verify, too well ... The models, are routinely too amplified with troughs and ridges in the time range. All doing so for their own reason. But, as is, the GGEM would frost more convincingly and pervasively. The Euro and GFS could, but they also orient the lower tropospheric synopsis differently, with more SW flow .... If their present versions of the trough verify just that less obtrusive, we actually end up in one of those deep southerly conveyor and humid. Perfect set up for a drawing a TC up ... but unfortunately for those interested in that sort of thing, ..it almost seems the seasonal trend is to recurve.

Makes sense in that they are closest evolution of branched ancestors, That behavioral tendencies may be recognizable… Still there’s a huge scale in degree of complexity and sophistication difference there. As far as the sardonic take on that other group of people … heh, I wonder if they subjected chimpanzees two a completely non-challenged life of utter provisional subsistence what kind of behavioral differences would they exhibit that differentiates them from their own immediate progenitor parents

My ratio was 3.2 on my last panel. In theory … 4.1 is the margin /goal for ‘good’ …lower being better. Course it’s not one-size-fits-all. One’s genetics/other risk factors obviously matter. Those may require them to have a lower ratio, or higher ratio is acceptable depending.

Ho man ..that looks good. You could fish a couple them bangers out and lay 'em in a subroll with some sauteed peppers and cheese for during the game, and still have 'nough left for pasta later. ...how does one get past the physiological apocalyptic LDL cholesterol tsunamis, though LOL Oh wait. You're Italian, right ? That means you probably have a built in genetic tolerance

It 'seemed' to? Mind you, it's not etched in factual stone or anything. It's just that back whence, we used to muse over the "southeast ridge" - it's really the origin-era for how that got into the common vernacular in describing notable features. I.e., "NAO block," "EPO cold loading," etc. It was bad - even when patterns from Siberia/Alaska/ ..western Canada and the U.S. Rockies were almost ideal - there was permanent 'bump' in the Tennessee Valley/ lower M/A and 580 heights over Atlanta Georgia. The impetus here being that it is perhaps too difficult to separate SE ridging from HC do to lapped proximity. It's around that time that I coined the expression, "the Miami rule." Basically, non-hydrostatic heights need to be below 582 dm, and/or the balanced geostrophic wind velocities between that ~ demarcation, and say Atlanta Georgia, needs to be lower the 40 kts, prior to any S/W coming down from the western Prairies of Canada and/or ejected through the West. If those assessment parameters are breached, we are gradually increasing negative interference - in that sense, shear increases. I have seen "at a glance" perfect pattern looks, with a nice tall ridge over 110 or so W, and a deep trough nadir roughly situated Cleveland, but the wind over Atlanta was 100 kts before any S/W arrived. What happens? The already fast wind field "absorbs" the wind max of the S/W as it arrives. It sort of just gets lost in the flow ... The system narrows impact, speeds up..and cyclones get pearled into multiple member vortices...and/or the system devolves into open wave WAA. It's just too much gradient ... The southeast ridge as recognizable interference aspect is likely always known, but that 2-3 years there during and post the '98 super nino, really elucidated. A lot of the speed saturated hemispheres we've had in the last 20 years have really been compression. Whether that is SE ridge, or just something related to HC resistance ...it may also be difficult to parse out which is which. I didn't personally notice the super Nino from 5 years ago adding - or like "resetting" the base-line, quite in the same way ..no. However, I have read papers where it was stated that the global impact/events, more typically known/thought to be caused by El Nino, where comparatively manageable relative to the ginormous ENSO. More over, others have noted that the patterns in winter have not been very well correlating in general, during either phase of ENSO. It may simple be that these ENSO regimes .. changes therein, or not modulating quite like they used to. Noise? Perhaps, perhaps not.

Yeah... I get that much. But I was hung up on the "last year" - ha! They meant earlier 'this' year... as in Jan/Feb of 2021. funny -

I'm not sure I follow? missed what -

I would not think it a very long guess that for most winter enthusiasts ...last year sucked ballz. It ranked very low on redemption scoring, outside of a narrow band through Central NE ..which will IMBY-lens arguments no doubt. Having said that ... I guess for pure objective reasoning, the bold means there was "at least" a chance? - no bueno. The humanity of the enthusiast would rather roll up that reasoning and beat the high-roader into a coma. Missing events by 500 mi is almost preferred over being C.H.ed ... It means one's region never was in the game. But a steady of diet near-misses is excruciating. No but 2020-2021 was a winter marred by velocity/shearing and negative interference tendencies the majority of time. That atones in most cases why those misses took place. If the scaffold of the pattern is circumstantially doing that, than the pattern sucks, and the reality did to. So I guess in this sense ... I would suggest using this objective reason to prove that subjectively, last winter sucked ballz, as being the fairest distinction. Ha ha yeah yeah, maybe it was just "bad luck" ...but I think the probability of a better vs worse result, relative to preference notwithstanding, is parlayed off of canvased winter pattern. Personally, I would rather not stack the deck with bad luck.

The recent Hadley studies have nothing to do with what was going on back in 1920s, which that decade vastly predates the observation and posited effects of the Hadley cell expansion since 1990; and in particularly the last two decades. Apples and oranges – in fact completely disparate topical causalities. You didn’t say anything in your response that really refutes the notion that HC expansion could be affecting the ENSO ability to modulate the circulation… I definitely agree with the MJO aspects though. This is no kind of a credit grab in saying so please do not try to go down any petty roads… But I’ve been saying the same thing about the MJO also getting muted because of the Hadley expansion for about 10 years. Fact the matter is… These things are almost always concurrently determined by multiple sources and it’s always a race to be the first one to say x-y/z whatever My personal observation with the HC is that it took a leap in the 1998 actually during that super Nino, and never really fell back to its original state before that particular El Niño took place - it has if anything grown somewhere between 3 and 5° of latitude since.

Finally ...we see a W/SW heat release signal... There's some kind of enabling god that is protecting SNE American WX Forum winter zealotry from experiencing those lobes on the Solstice - It's really rather remarkable how dependable that is -

It's all about momentum ... op ed as we will, opine and whine... but in the end, you have an industrialized world with 7+billion on board - I made this metaphor several weeks ago in a diatribe - it's hard to turn a fully loaded sea-tanker around inside 1.5 mi, when we only have .75 miles before the edge of the world. That's basically it ... that symbolism means, there is too much ballast going in the direction of FF for energy. This denial and those asshat "conditional sociopaths" all of it is just part of that momentum. Oh, it'll abate eventually ... in lieu of the new world order. Whether that is by force or choice remains to be seen, but in either case, ...it'll take time.

80/64 90+% sun here

I wonder what the elevation differences are between the Cuba site and Blue Hill ... Blue Hill's observatory/station site is some 630+ feet. The surrounding topography makes it a uniquely exposed site. You go to the observatory up there and you can see to the eternal horizon in all direction, unless it is clear enough to make out vastly distant serrated geographies, to far to matter. There are simply no competing elevations in the region, ...such that wind is rather ideally unobstructed. Cuba does have some elevations. I'm just curious if site-circumstance helped Blue Hill achieve it's glory, but the Cuba one may have "needed the bigger anomaly" to get to the measurement. I'm always in a quandary over the the advantage vs disadvantage stuff - because I see things benefiting or hurting, and I also suspect it belies aspects of total causality when this happens. It's annoying ... It doesn't mean Blue Hill's wind didn't happen. It's a sticking up with no wind breaks between it and the eternal expanse in the x-coordinate in all direction... A rare deep pressure anomaly accelerated in motion to speed that exceeds its decay rate, put that location up there with a huge advantage in this sense. It's like a baby born on 2nd based with all it's peers still trying out to even get chance at bat in life.

We have differing ways and means, but arrive upon a similar conclusion. I think that the silver bullet in seasonal forecasting is right there, like an egg on a plate for those starving for insight, but they just don't like eggs I guess. Or, don't recognize it as food for thought. Short version: The HC is subsuming ENSO signal; reliance on the latter is becoming less than credible. Longer version: with empirical evidence, now spanning more than a decade, papers have been/being turning of phrases, that separating the effects of Hadley Cell expansion, from those attributed more specifically to the ENSOs, is blurred(ing). "Blurring" suggests that it is not complete. That is true... hence why above we say, "Becoming less than credible" So, it may be more apropos to say over-reliance. But the last two warm cycles, including the 'super' Nino now 6 or so years ago, demonstrated impacts beneath the typical spectrum, along known climate routes. Meanwhile, the La Nina side of the machinery has correlated at times with the general hemispheric circulation mode, but only transiently. In fact, I've argued when it did during the last two years ...it was mainly because there were times when the D(pattern)/DT happened to be differentiating through the La Nina construct template. This gave a daily scalar appeal be consistent. I.e., it just happened to align while in route to some other destination ... One that interestingly too often arrived to mangled versions of more El Nino -esque. But, whether one looks at the pallet of environmental circumstances that, in theory, are related to what drives the governing characteristic of the total circulation engine - such as what you suggested, or they see it through the lens above and reasons ... that is using different mathematics to come to the same notion. The HC phenomenon isn't gone or going anywhere. The present ENSO signal is unclear, but likely less than extraordinary. I'd suggest that the distribution of SD events/phenomenon, over time, will be less identifiable/attributable squarely to ENSO ...although I guarantee, the narrative consensus will attempt to do so. It's funny ..there's like two climate changes going on. The geo-physical one ...caused ( most likely) by the "Anthropocene" epoch as it rages henceforth. Then there is a virtual climate in the zeitgeist of willingness to accept former changes change. Those are definitely lagged -

Heh you’re likely putting up +10 total diurnals with that ridge next week. Even if the skies gunk the DPs are keeping a minimum (pun) of two nights excessively warm relative to climo. It could be +15 in that aspect. The abv average days actually end up correcting the tot diurnals down. And if it’s sunnier even with it less rad the wick still sends it you can add the 10s Nocturnal temps have really controlled the SDs and that’s still going on. I guess that can be the case any time of the year but it seems it would be less likely if the transition season were really underway. Again I don’t think we can say the summers over until the 582 stops rebounding back north of our latitude- imo

I remember a couple of events even in early April '96. That year just was interminable... I don't think the spring was particularly warm either. It's like the winter never ended ..it just got lost in the genetics of spring --> like a recessive trait. LOL ...faded from blues to brown.

Actually... we had a cold snap on the heels. The next day or day after... we had a high temp of 9 in gusty CAA... The night was still +3 above because the wind kept howling - I dunno, maybe blocking played into that. But I don't recall much happening after that event/cold that followed, either. The winter over all was a needling disappointment after that lofty 1993-1994 expectation platform. Obviously we've portrayed these winters in a thousand different personal colors and canvases...It is well-known that previous year was frigid and had decent snow. Actually broke the seasonal record at Logan...though it would only hold that trophy for 2 years. It also had weird elevated warm layers. We had one storm ( Will and I have discussed...) that was decent snow but almost all of which was OE underneath a weird moderate IP storm. In fact, it really was an IP storm, ...at least synoptically. But the OE and secondary lower growth layer underneath kept up and gave good low ratio cotton balls that were probably getting meteoroid by big frozen IPs.. I actually stood in the drive way and saw some falling aggregates get fractured while chuting down. It was a like .75" of sleet mixed with 20::1 snow. Hard to do that. But it was a good year. It was also coming off the 1992-1993 ...post Pinatubo ( maybe ...) change in the totality of the hemisphere, that made Dec and later in March seem at long last like they were more plausible going forward. Either way, nice attitude reset, 1992-1993. Then 1993-1994 ... and boy! was the boner lubed for what? 1994-1995... Blue balls! That's what that winter was. The great Blue Baller -

Yup ...was up at UML ... only event that saved that years street cred at all. 10". It was ginormous by seasonal standard ..albeit totally pedestrian by climate - particularly since we started handing out twelvies like Pez candies

This may sound weird...but it is idiosyncratic to just my particular brand of nerdiness... heh - Of those two, the bold is the worse of them. 11-12 was so bad, that it became fascinating and earned points back in the awe-factor. I mean, sometimes shit gets so shitty you just have to step back and objectively marvel at how deep in it Nature is capable of jamming your head. Really a fantastic achievement in the scalar sense of it. Also, that Halloween in 2011 was something like a 500 year return rate event and I'm not sure I can really disconnect such a rare thing from a total winter. That's not really fair. If 88-89 is an the utmost asshole winter, I would argue 1994-1995 is a pube away - call it a 'taint winter