Yeah there's no doubt this warm-up that was progged for a couple weeks on the EPS is evaporating, I'm certainly not going to complain... The EPS still looks wrong w/ a trough in the southwestern US in the midst of an Alaskan ridge (which is getting stronger due to intense Indian Ocean forcing) but the last 3 runs have been trending towards squash city of the SE US ridge as the Alaskan ridge grows more intense on subsequent runs, which keeps the cold pattern going right on into mid-January.
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