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Pattern January Joke

The amount of effort that it is even taking to get precipitation around here is just monumental. I get La Nina and all. But we just keep jumping from one pattern variation to another that all produce the same result.

As long as we have a low-topped ridge or a NW-SE oriented ridge and no STJ, it's a clipper fest.
All we had to do is quit listening to Bastardi, Webber,Grit, Robert, Farmers Almanac, Groundhog, woolyworm back in November.

Just listen to Shettley. He nailed it.
 
More on the 12Z GEFS that says the op. is an outlier:

12Z GFS 186 6 hour qpf: plentiful qpf E Carolinas
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12Z GEFS members 186 6 hour qpf: members have either none (most) or very little qpf E Carolinas; but #s 13, 14, and 30 have significant qpf just offshore meaning with some adjustments they may not be too far off from E Carolinas snow:
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More on the 12Z GEFS that says the op. is an outlier:

12Z GFS 186 6 hour qpf: plentiful qpf E Carolinas
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12Z GEFS members 186 6 hour qpf: members have either none (most) or very little qpf E Carolinas; but #s 13, 14, and 30 have significant qpf just offshore meaning with some adjustments they may not be too far off from E Carolinas snow:
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We know man.. lol we can dream!
 
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With the first system you gotta figure out how you want the northern stream energy and southern stream energy to interact. Models will likely be all over the place with the placement and interaction of the two features.
 
A5B49AE1-7B07-431F-81AD-760AD441B7AA.pngB6896403-4B67-49BA-9896-F99922B8CC96.pngIn regards to vortex concerns, on the Euro run you can see the vortex depart around day 10 with the eastern ridge at 500 showing up shortly after. Then you get the stretched vortex returning further into North America day 14-15 and sure enough we end with a decent cold shot at hour 360.
 
There's just no blocking to slow the thing down. Even a little blocking would help. Or a bigger ridge spike. But they usually seem to trend less steep with time.

If we could see some blocking start showing up, there will be a big dog. You've got energy just begging to hook up.

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There's just no blocking to slow the thing down. Even a little blocking would help. Or a bigger ridge spike. But they usually seem to trend less steep with time.

If we could see some blocking start showing up, there will be a big dog. You've got energy just begging to hook up.

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Hasn’t the trend been for the blocking to come back closer to time recently or am I just making that up.
 
Hasn’t the trend been for the blocking to come back closer to time recently or am I just making that up.
It depends on the period, I guess. If the MJO wakes up as expected, we'll have to see what phase it's likely to be in to determine how it may influence the pattern in 9 days or so. I think it would have more of an influence then than it has had recently.

We have, generally, seen a tendency for the -NAO to return. So we can put that as a plus in the seasonal trend bucket, I suppose. Same with LR models showing a ridge in the east that turns into a trough with time.
 
There's just no blocking to slow the thing down. Even a little blocking would help. Or a bigger ridge spike. But they usually seem to trend less steep with time.

If we could see some blocking start showing up, there will be a big dog. You've got energy just begging to hook up.

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In fairness, we've come a long way with the pattern from where we were.....but yes, we could use a bit of shortwave sharpness diving into the base of the trough to get more precip and colder temperatures working top-down.

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Runs seemed fine to me. We could have easily continue what could have been a trend in the wrong direction from yesterday evening into last night but we have quickly cut that off & look better compared to the last 12 hours.
 
Runs seemed fine to me. We could have easily continue what could have been a trend in the wrong direction from yesterday evening into last night but we have quickly cut that off & look better compared to the last 12 hours.
To me everything is pretty much on the table. Just gotta get things to come together. I really think that -NAO is gonna come back in a big way the next couple of days.
 
To me, it looks like we went from overrunning, to the middle ground of suck last night, and now we’re are starting to edge more towards a miller A look for that day 10 timeframe. Just need to slow things down imo, the western ridge has trended way east. This is why I was saying worrying about SE ridging isn’t exactly my concern a few days ago, it’s going back to the base state of suppression and dry NW flow with an occasional clipper. This western ridge is taller though then the December midget ridge and VA even scored with that super mario ahhh ridge, so maybe we dig something up this go with it being taller IMG_2026.gifIMG_2024.gifIMG_2027.gif
 
To me, it looks like we went from overrunning, to the middle ground of suck last night, and now we’re are starting to edge more towards a miller A look for that day 10 timeframe. Just need to slow things down imo, the western ridge has trended way east. This is why I was saying worrying about SE ridging isn’t exactly my concern a few days ago, it’s going back to the base state of suppression and dry NW flow with an occasional clipper. This western ridge is taller though then the December midget ridge and VA even scored with that super mario ahhh ridge, so maybe we dig something up this go with it being taller View attachment 181793View attachment 181795View attachment 181796
Spot on! I hate that we lost the overrunning look. Phasing systems are tricky for the models to figure out, so we keep watching.
 
Spot on! I hate that we lost the overrunning look. Phasing systems are tricky for the models to figure out, so we keep watching.
Yeah agree. Gotta like where the AI is heading though, it’s getting close to getting out the sucky middle ground. If we want to increase our chances here we need some northern stream to really dig, and besides, we are at a time of the year where it’s relatively easy to sneak out a novelty/minor event just from Northern stream by itself passing overhead. Tilting it and phasing though is something else IMG_2030.gif
 
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