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Pattern April Oven

Is it time for the ultra mega super volcano nino that's going to evaporate the pacific waters

Shane, is SouthernWx still sponsoring a cruise for members to drop a whole bunch of ice on the Maritime Continent to reduce time that the MJO spends in phases 4 and 5? If so, can you arrange for the boat to take a side trip to Nino 3.4 so that that area can also be cooled? We’ll need a lot of ice though.
 
Shane, is SouthernWx still sponsoring a cruise for members to drop a whole bunch of ice on the Maritime Continent to reduce time that the MJO spends in phases 4 and 5? If so, can you arrange for the boat to take a side trip to Nino 3.4 so that that area can also be cooled? We’ll need a lot of ice though.
Ill be honest I'm still not down on this winter. Maybe I'm not looking at it correctly. I feel like that's where your post was going
 
Only producing Dust Devils, In all My 60 years Living here (exception of Early 1986), I've not seen it this dry..
I was on a charter.last weekend out in town creek and a dust devil moved off the marsh over the water. Perfect swirl on the water and a gust into the 30s as it hit the boat. One cool nerdy experience
 
Ill be honest I'm still not down on this winter. Maybe I'm not looking at it correctly. I feel like that's where your post was going

I was just being silly. I’m also not down on 26-27 at this stage. Some super-Ninos have been memorable for many in the SE like 1888-9, 1957-8, 1965-6, 1972-3, and 1982-3.

Of course, it may end up not reaching super strength, especially based on RONI.
 
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This sums up where we are at concerning the lack of precipitation over the past several months well. Hopefully what some of the models are showing for late April will change the situation some.
 

This sums up where we are at concerning the lack of precipitation over the past several months well. Hopefully what some of the models are showing for late April will change the situation some.
I'm sorry but the % chance of the drought ending graphic is lol to me. There's getting more into % based forecasting then there is overkill like this
 
I'll admit I wouldn't take those percentages literally. I have no idea what he WRAL meteorologists base that data on.
Yeah I'm not sure where it came from. I think something that would have been better would be how many inches of rain were needed in 30 days 60 days 90 days to end the drought. That at least gives everyone a more quantifiable number
 
The 0z models did not look great, especially the GFS. The Euro has more precipitation, but it is after 10 days. I do not really see a major change in precip until August or September.

I’m targeting November for the change to consistently wetter than normal in much of the SE, which is typical for strong El Niño autumns. Until then lots of watering is anticipated during dry periods.

But good news is that for well before then, the model consensus is showing a pattern change to wetter than normal in ~10 days (at least down in my general area) and going into early May. Fingers crossed that from then through Oct will be closer to normal.
 
0z CFS has been fairly consistent with the pattern change. It now has the change starting in about 10 days (no can kicking). Here's the end of the run total QPF, with much of the SE totals occurring after day 10:

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