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Pattern The Great December Dump

Never mind, stronger now than it was last run at hour 150, likely gonna be more amped with more wrap around type precip, more north tho
 
Perhaps, but also if one considered that the coldest relative to normal has been in the N US and the warmest S, that’s typical of the opposite, La Niña. Thanks largely to -GLAAM apparently.

There's a huge catch to this though and diagnosing ENSO takes a lot more than looking at output values from an index. GLAAM has been negative largely due to the strong +IOD creating excess west Indian Ocean convection but +IOD occurs far more frequently during El Ninos and the global circulation is what you expect in a modern NINO just w/ more lean towards the Indian Ocean which is a function of multidecadal variability or perhaps longer term climate change.
Oct 1-Nov 27 2019 VP200.gif

El Ninos since 1997=98
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La Ninas since 1997-98

La Ninas since 1997-98 VP200.png


There's nothing La Nina about the divergent upper level circulation globally, it's literally the opposite of what we've seen in La Ninas since the turn of the century. ENSO imo can be best described as "modoki-west" this year based on where the strongest part of the divergent, upper level circulation is located between the Maritime Continent & far East Pacific. Its location ~150E is very conducive to -NAOs.
 
This time around Raleigh looks like it might be in the bullseye. I love it! GSO-CLT-RDU
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gotta like the consistency, if models continue to show something around this time frame, and other models support the GFS solution (which is lacking a bit) into early next week, than we may have something
 
Snow totals are not as bullish this run, but with a 980mb low, I wouldn’t be surprised if that changes
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What is interesting is that a lot of gefs members from 18z had a similar type of snowfall pattern look ... it was either shifted north south east or west and or was bigger or smaller in size but overall most had some sort of shape and configuration as this ... all will come down to when and where phase occurs (and of course if but ... no one likes that question;) )
 
What is interesting is that a lot of gefs members from 18z had a similar type of snowfall pattern look ... it was either shifted north south east or west and or was bigger or smaller in size but overall most had some sort of shape and configuration as this ... all will come down to when and where phase occurs (and of course if but ... no one likes that question;) )

Yeah, GFS was close to something monstrous, phase was just a little late
 
Any chance this can shift west? Seems like NC is always the talk lol
 
Any chance this can shift west? Seems like NC is always the talk lol
NC geography wise is just in a really good place to get hit with a lot of phases systems they love phasing off the coast and the configuration of the land makes it easy for somewhere in NC to score a lot of the time
 
I’m know how bad the GFS is at any range I’m still watch for ensemble support. This still looks like it could be a good system
 
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