If the Canadian Ensemble is to be believed + overall trends we’re seeing on NWP lately, next week’s -NAO stands a good chance to couple with the stratosphere and persist for a rather long time, possibly thru early to even mid March (?).
Even if we don’t snow, that kind of circulation change would have a realistic chance to put a damper on us torching in Feb (like we normally do in La Ninas) or at least make that period of time much shorter overall.
I really hope my call for a warm first half-2/3rds of February this year busts, that would be awesome ?