After all his incessant chest beating of late, JB sure gone quiet about mentioning this supposed warm spell in early January... He's probably starting to realize that Siberian air will be sitting over the Canadian Rockies, Alaska, & @ least the northwestern tier of the US during the first week of the month. The question still remains whether or not the Alaskan/GOA ridge will be strong & close enough to the Rockies to advect the arctic air into the southeastern US. The trends of late in the guidance have been in favor of this solution, but again this is a very fickle pattern & even a minor detail in the ACWB event in the North Pacific will mean the difference between more mild wx & an arctic assault in the SE US, so we'll have to see...
