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Pattern December Dud 👀

What am I missing here? I'm sure we'll see above average temps and no snow regardless of what time of winter it is because thats how we roll now, but that doesn't look like recent winters from my memory. I'm used to seeing a huge ridge south of the Aleutians and troughing on the west coast. Yeah there is yellow over us as always but looks like ridging out west and troughing in the east by the isobars. And energy undercutting out west?
Last winter we had this look. It flooded us with mild pacific air, in dec and early jan. But it’s worth noting this look happened in early January, before that cold pattern occured (the pattern weakened the strat PV significantly) sort of similar like we might have coming up (Bering sea vortex signal)
 
Last winter we had this look. It flooded us with mild pacific air, in dec and early jan. But it’s worth noting this look happened in early January, before that cold pattern occured (the pattern weakened the strat PV significantly) sort of similar like we might have coming up (Bering sea vortex signal)

I have had a couple people out here talking about the end of the month might be more interesting but it's just so far away right now it's hard to trust
 
Balmy 4 Degrees on top of Beech Mountain and looks like a stiff little breeze to boot per the webcam. Still looks like if you want to get a round of golf in over The Hollidays, need to make Hay before Christmas Day and not after. Still early but the warmest part of December for us should be M-W next week and 17th-23rdish. Problem this week is it will be wet, thankfully.

I'm 90%+ confident December will end up Below Normal for Greensboro. Despite some warm days mixed in, Greensboro will be a good 11-13 Below Normal come this Sunday with only 3/4 of the month left to make up the lost ground.
 
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