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Pattern January Joke

The theme this winter is the lack of any really water feed. Promises dampen out. We are in a drought and this makes sense. Not even receiving measurable rain systems. Maybe his changes soon.,.really soon
That ICON map I posted would probably verify. Drought begets drought.
 
Things feel so bleak for the foothills of WNC and the upstate. We see the mountains snow fairly regularly, we’ve missed snow to our east 3 years in a row. It’s a rough drought we’re in right now.
Agreed but we're about to hit a good spot with MJO in phase 7-8 and plenty of cold air to our North with a transition to el-nino next month. 93 had no snow until the blizzard. We have plenty of time left. All it takes is one good storm to hit average around here.
 
Based on this GEFS PNA prog, the Jan PNA is very likely going to end up a net+ once again after a -ENSO Dec -PNA, which has been the case every time since 1983-4. It will rise to ~0 MTD 1/20. With mainly +PNA from there to the EOM, this would end a net +:

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Sadly for us ATL folks, even though this system has shown up a ton now on both GFS and Euro, it never seems cold enough down into GA and all we get is rain. Hope it changes but… so far ATL is out of it.
We are going to need to see a bit better cold press out of the ensembles to get areas further south more firmly in the game. Still time!
 
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Sadly for us ATL folks, even though this system has shown up a ton now on both GFS and Euro, it never seems cold enough down into GA and all we get is rain. Hope it changes but… so far ATL is out of it.
I wouldn't sweat surface print outs just yet. Just as I am not assuming this trends north & west from mby. Plenty of time to sort those things out. We have a decent signal out there now consistently through several runs. That's the big take away.
 
The pattern for late January and early February looks stunning for someone living in southern Illinois. But also for the SE I could see a large scale winter storm setting up across the country around January 25-30

Lots of cold sprawled out across the country and an active southern stream .. yummy

More than likely a great pattern for winter weather in the upper south territories and CAD regions. But that’s how it normally goes anyway right?
 
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