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January 2019 Discussion II


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Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said:

It did, though. Most went from getting zero snowfall, to several inches.

 

Obviously we have only had one storm...yes the gradient pushed further south so that is a change...but the pattern before was also a gradient winter interspersed with cutters...so we are still sticking with the gradient pattern interspersed with cutters(going with the next storm on deck is a cutter)...so if the only change is that the gradient shifted further south...ok yes, it has for that one storm so far...but my perception is that it really wasnt that much of a change. 

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3 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Right ...right because that is physically the end of the perennial solar nadir  ... which begins November 10 and ends on that Feb date... 

every year... 

A 6th grade complexity Earth -sun relationship facet that for some reason (gee I wonder why) doesn't seem to penetrate some individuals in this short-bus forum

My house faces due south so my driveway is bathed in sun. Sitting in my car earlier soaking in full sun felt amazing

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1 minute ago, #NoPoles said:

Obviously we have only had one storm...yes the gradient pushed further south so that is a change...but the pattern before was also a gradient winter interspersed with cutters...so we are still sticking with the gradient pattern interspersed with cutters(going with the next storm on deck is a cutter)...so if the only change is that the gradient shifted further south...ok yes, it has for that one storm so far...but my perception is that it really wasnt that much of a change. 

Its not as large of a change as we want, agreed.

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7 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Wow that’s impressive. Was it around the same for BDL? It was certainly one of the most impressive cold shots I’ve experienced.

Yes sir....Bradley saw it's coldest High temp in almost 40 years yesterday(since 1981) at 4 above for the high temp.  Super impressive that's for sure.  This was colder than everything since 1981 at BDL.  

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17 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Right ...right because that is physically the end of the perennial solar nadir  ... which begins November 10 and ends on that Feb date... 

every year... 

A 6th grade complexity Earth -sun relationship facet that for some reason (gee I wonder why) doesn't seem to penetrate some individuals in this short-bus forum

Jesus, chill...its a joke.

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Judah hanging on for dear life:

"However the MJO is expected to trnasition to five and six over the next two weeks.  MJO phases 4-6 favors ridging over eastern North America with mild temperatures and troughing over western North America with cold temperatures.  It is not obvious to me that the MJO is influencing North American weather. "

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11 minutes ago, #NoPoles said:

My house faces due south so my driveway is bathed in sun. Sitting in my car earlier soaking in full sun felt amazing

I like those too... those moments when your in a kind of "nook" that's cozy.  It's an autumn and spring phenomenon.    

Sometimes on that rare April day when April isn't being the more typical asshole,  I like those faux mild moments like that. 

Those moments that actually cause Keven pain ...  thank god!

But uh, we get that in October sometimes going the other way. An early chilly air mass in a calm wind over saffron leaf fall with still relative sun warmth has its splendor.  

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19 minutes ago, MJOatleast7 said:

Judah hanging on for dear life:

"However the MJO is expected to trnasition to five and six over the next two weeks.  MJO phases 4-6 favors ridging over eastern North America with mild temperatures and troughing over western North America with cold temperatures.  It is not obvious to me that the MJO is influencing North American weather. "

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While I don't speak to his exact motivation for making that statement - assuming he really did ...  - my own impressions of the MJO significance arrives me to a similar conclusion. 

The MJO is just another index in a myriad of them ...Each can be dominate at any given time ...masking the influence of the others because its magnitude/forcing is much bigger...

Then, the given index fades ...and some other gets its turn; it then masks influence, and it seems like it's the whole game.   

All the while, some of these indexes are even effected by the other ...given time dependencies... 

If the surrounding hemispheric medium is in phase with the MJO ... it will "seem" like the MJO is driving the whole thing... when what it may (most likely...) be doing is only enhancing.  Folks should read up on "destructive" vs "constructive" wave interference in physics - it'll help elucidate what this is all about... and perhaps open a door to a deeper understanding of why say ... Phase 8 did A but this time it did X ...and that goes to other Phases ... as well, why NAOs and PNAs and WPOs and all of them are at times more than less seemingly correlated to resulting patterns.  

All that, which represents the maelstrom of the atmosphere, creates a reality where there are no absolutes.  Because a Phase 8 this did that, but didn't do that the next time... and on and so on, the correlations are never 1::1.  And in fact, there are no indexes that correlated perfectly with either adjacent indexes, or patterns.  ...  But some can and do correlated very highly...  

As far as the MJO in the here-and-now:  I see that as almost identical to that which preceded the recent Phase 8... I recall several weeks ago this wave was in Phase 5 and was segmented with similar timing intervals, as well... similar magnitude separated from the COD/inner region.  The wave painfully unfurled through Phase 6....then 7... finally 8...   I wonder if we're just going to repeat that whole cycling ... regardless of whether it seems to(or not) correlate with patterns. 

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