Maybe it can help retrograde the NAO if it digs enoughstill here comes the big EC trough/TPV in Canada, not a fan of that stuff in AK it’s gonna make things more fast/have a tendency to spread in mild air from the pacific View attachment 95023
If winds die down Tuesday night, that could be my first hard freeze with very dry air and clear skies. So far, no lows below 32 at my house, yet.This would basically be our highs on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving View attachment 95027
That's a pretty beefy block on the gfs and much better than the budget version we had last year. In the heart of winter I'd be excited, this time of year not so muchThis look is getting old, I love a -NAO but everytime we get a block cold air evacuates to the other side of the world and that pacific becomes a crap salad, of course it’s hard to get a -EPO/-NAO at the same time but it has happened View attachment 95030View attachment 95031
Yeah i agree, but I dont really like what the GFS is doing pushing back the cold air towards the other side of the world in time for December, thank goodness it’s just a OP modelThat's a pretty beefy block on the gfs and much better than the budget version we had last year. In the heart of winter I'd be excited, this time of year not so much
When last time the pacific has been good to us lately ? Lol. Can’t really rememberSomething I'm watching over the next few days is the nao and the amount of cold/cool and troughing in the east. Seems like the models have a tendency to want to flatten the flow and warm in the east at extended leads in the east and trend cooler more troughed as we get closer in time. But that is really all pointless if the pac falls apart
13-14?When last time the pacific has been good to us lately ? Lol. Can’t really remember
Something I'm watching over the next few days is the nao and the amount of cold/cool and troughing in the east. Seems like the models have a tendency to want to flatten the flow and warm in the east at extended leads in the east and trend cooler more troughed as we get closer in time. But that is really all pointless if the pac falls apart
Even if we could have that work about the 2nd week of December it could produce cold enough air. It would be nice to fix that mess in the GOA thoughThat's a pretty beefy block on the gfs and much better than the budget version we had last year. In the heart of winter I'd be excited, this time of year not so much
That was true with the February Arctic outbreak east of the Apps, but for most of last winter, it was actually warm ups getting delayed as models got closer to verification. Most of that was due to the persistent blocking that set up. Right now even with the look that we’re seeing modeled with a shallow Pacific ridge, that could still tap into some cold air that’s been building in NW Canada (something that was very delayed last year)… it’s not as good tapping into a Siberian airmass, but it can get the job done north of I-20 as we go into December.Last year, we saw the same type of pattern in the models. We would see the promise of pronounced blocking and deep troughing over the EC in the long range, where it would slowly but surely back off during days 5-8 before returning to some lesser degree.
The pacific is the key to any sustainable pro-winter wx pattern this year as it was last. We can get the -NAO, but can we get the -EPO and ridging out west that doesn't spit vorticity after vorticity into the NW PAC.
The big issue with the models over the past few years has been their tendency to amp up pacific ridging past d7 only to back down as time gets closer. I'm not entirely sure why they are doing so but it has been fairly noticeableLast year, we saw the same type of pattern in the models. We would see the promise of pronounced blocking and deep troughing over the EC in the long range, where it would slowly but surely back off during days 5-8 before returning to some lesser degree.
The pacific is the key to any sustainable pro-winter wx pattern this year as it was last. We can get the -NAO, but can we get the -EPO and ridging out west that doesn't spit vorticity after vorticity into the NW PAC.