Webberweather53
Meteorologist
You buying the easterlies fading out? Does this potentially mean nina won’t have as much influence on pattern into February?
It takes several weeks for the atmosphere to respond to large-scale changes in the ocean attributable to WWBs and the oceanic kelvin waves generated from them. We'll definitely begin to feel the impacts as we get deep into March & April especially if this downwelling kelvin wave is strong enough to completely shut-off the upwelling in the EP. It couldn't happen at a much better time in the seasonal cycle, the MJO's envelope of WWBs in its wake are most axisymmetric wrt the equator at this time of the year in/around February-March and the bjerknes feedback and zonal SST gradients are weakest, which makes the Eq Pacific most susceptible and/or receptive to high frequency variability.