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Pattern Jammin' January

I know this run didn't make it, but WOW look at that ridge going up....
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Poleward anticyclones from the North Atlantic only make the NAO more positive in the long run and rarely make the nao negative for more than a few days, the lifetime of about one wave break. Need a big block to form over Scandinavia and come west to get the big -NAO everyone wants
 
Poleward anticyclones from the North Atlantic only make the NAO more positive in the long run and rarely make the nao negative for more than a few days, the lifetime of about one wave break. Need a big block to form over Scandinavia and come west to get the big -NAO everyone wants

With how active the pattern seems to want to be that will be tough? Though, end of ens runs shows trough breaking down over B/K sea and Scandi. Maybe in Feb.
 
Poleward anticyclones from the North Atlantic only make the NAO more positive in the long run and rarely make the nao negative for more than a few days, the lifetime of about one wave break. Need a big block to form over Scandinavia and come west to get the big -NAO everyone wants
I agree on that, but sorry was talking about pac ridge
 
FV3 looks like a swing and a miss on 1/23. The wave went from being pretty amped to the northern stream shearing out the wave (and epic cold I believe). Good news I think, with it being this early.
 
FV3 looks like a swing and a miss on 1/23. The wave went from being pretty amped to the northern stream shearing out the wave (and epic cold I believe). Good news I think, with it being this early.
Also has a better look then the gfs on this run so far. A lot cold air to the north also.
 
That storm on the end of the FV looks exactly like the storm that produced a good snow last year around this time in nc
 
It’s amazing what can happen when you get a little -AO showing up on the models. Still doesn’t seem to get me snow but those purple maps sure are pretty. I’m pretty sure you could get snow on a gulf oil rig with anomolies like that
 
Look at that north to south US gradient. 80 in south Texas..-31 in Minneapolis..you don’t even have to drive border to border to find 110 degrees of temperature difference,.just imagine if you were a trucker taking a delivery of Modelo to MinnesotaBF549B4D-0AD9-4699-8534-5F7BE3284C31.png
 
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arctic front is way slower this run, we do go from 60s to 30s during the day Saturday but the snow stays well north
 
6z gfs is run offs of 0z, To early to pin point A storms, just know that a storm signal is there. I bet 12z brings the goods back
 
6z GEFS Mean with potential for NC around the 20-21st and another threat for the entire SE around the 24th. Looks to be more opportunities to score after that as well.
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Ew, big anticyclones from the south into Greenland usually are a red flag of an impending +NAO as the jet is pushed poleward of the anticyclone. Hopefully that doesn’t verify

Is that true all the time? The 6z gefs nicely retrogrades the war to a nice full block up top, with a look similar to the weeklies. Are you saying if that happens it's likely to be a very temporary fixture?

Retrograding that ridge to a greenland block seems the only to way to get a -nao in the near term, as theres a permanent trough near Scandinavia.
 
The 6Z FV3, similar to the 0Z run, has insane cold for the E half of the US late in the run (1/26-29). It even has two days way down here that barely make it to 32 (1/27 and 28)! Whereas I’m not at all saying this can’t or won’t happen with this pattern as it certainly could in the extreme, I’d say caution advised because it is two weeks out on a model with cold biased tendencies, especially that far out in time. By the way, 1/26-29 on that frigid run is, not surprisingly, dry in the SE outside of the mountains though moisture is pooling in the W GOM at the end of the run as H5 winds start shifting to a moist flow.
 
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