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January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Frankly not really. I think the observations I elucidated/illustrated this morning are going to be more useful in setting expectations than the previous to be honest. There's a whip transition toward a -EPO occurring - rather unexpectedly, really. The previous paradigm/idea suggested we were going to move from the last several weeks of N. Pac, toward a +PNA of sorts. The former is breaking down over the next week. Ooo rah! the wicked witch is dead. Or at least in hiatus. Anyway, latest appears that we're more likely to relay into a -EPO, instead. Firstly, it's not clear or very high confidence how that will influence the pattern down stream over N/A very precisely. But ...whatever that is, it is not likely to be the same as a +PNA. Not right away anyway. Given some time, there is a lag correlation where -EPOs tend to neutralize, and the positive mode of the PNA subsequently occurs. Maybe that times out there mid month? who knows. So the 12z Euro is really coming into line with all this. We had been tentatively monitoring an event of sorts on the 6th ...followed perhaps by a more important one 8-9-10ish. At this point in the Euro it's getting difficult to even identify those wave spaces it's changing things so hard. We actually have a resurgence of SE ridging on us... Which ... the initial stages of a -EPO does in fact teleconnect to hgt falls through the Rockies, which then wave spacing arguments then correlates the SE ridge response. That's really what we're seeing. And as that occur, that ridge has become or is becoming in negative interference with those systems we had been keeping an eye on. There getting sort of damped out. That latter one on this run ..can't be trusted - not yet anyway. -EPO is a cold loading pattern into N/A ... it starts up in the NW territories...than spreads S-E throughout the Can shield. Then, if/when the +PNA does arrive ... even transient mode states will then promote delivery S of the border. If I were asked at this point in time - an act that seldom happens these days... haha ... I would tell you that this is all implies the present cold --> warm --> cold transition spanning the next 3 weeks, with those successive periods being lesser confidence as to their lengths/amplitude. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
I'm not in response there.. I was asking you, a question. His opinions can be where ever he wants. the point is, if you do no like him or his opinions, you have the power to do something about it - don't read them. In fact, if it bothers you that much, ignore him altogether. That's it. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
So ... curious, why does his posting content matter to you. You're saying on one hand that everyone's entitled to their opinion, then saying he "keeps bashing" - that doesn't sound like we are allowing people their opinion. It should not and in fact, logically does not matter what the opinion content is when it comes to rendering perspectives about a 3rd party subject; that is also completely virtual, btw. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Well ... if it is wrong and a +PNA does take place instead, that would justify setting probabilities. I will just say that in my 25 years of these index awareness', which includes observing their correlations both in situ, and over time spans, and how the various mass fields they numerically represent ( teleconnections) then subsequently interact ...etc, I haven't seen a modeled +PNA win as a direct go to very often. Typically, when in modeling conflict that starts with the PNA, when the EPO arrives in the guidance, the PNA suspends and/or mutes ... Again, with time lag... the -EPO collapses and the +PNA then materializes. All the overnight stuff is doing is telling us that the previous paradigm is not going to go straight into a +PNA... It is going to go a route that frankly tends to happen most of the time. It'll be interesting to see where this goes. By the way, don't look at the 12z GFS operational run. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
I just spent time putting together a post that explains ... the recent anticipated emergence of the positive PNA is now in question. Paraphrase: the ensembles means, all three sources, are moving the breakdown of the -WPO/hyprid stuck pattern of the last several weeks, ...more toward a -EPO variant, more so than a +PNA. That's a change, because the the latter pattern type was signaled for awhile. As an aside, the EPO is not very well correlated to the PNA on the daily. It is actually correlated to a positive PNA with time lag... So that would imply later on... pushing a +PNA out to latter month. There's uncertainly because of the newness of all this. This was/is based upon rather abrupt changes that arrived slowly over the last 2 days in the GEFs, but then overnight last night, the GEFs surged into this new paradigm ( shown with charts in that post), and it is being joined by the others... etc. It is inherently a continuity break so - we have to give it some modeling cycles. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
I like this, Kevin. It's an honest perspective based upon real experience; nicely stated too. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Ha... it could show progress, actually. Like even the populace is getting their minds around the notion that GW is as much about huge variance ( to wit, 'cold' is part of that), as it is the actual warming itself. There's a compendium of reasons you and I know that the general population doesn't really have to - just that they know the variances are bigger. That all said... I don't think it represents progress in this case. LOL Maybe what it represents is when this particular etho-chamber social media nears apoplexy over the fact that it doesn't seem to matter what index says this, or pattern says that... or Met extols the virtues of their own brilliance ... blah blah. 'Where's the fucking 7 contoured hornet parked on near Block Island!!' One raging a battle against a 1040 mb high pressure over Moose Turd Ontario wouldn't hurt. haha. Have it followed by a trough that offers another toke off the blue-light (internet chart) pipe after, too.... all that. \ So frustrated that we're willing to through GW into the reasons? -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
It's amazing how warm those springs were ... Not sure if there was specific cool waves along the MAMs but I don't believe those offset the warmth enough to make them average? interesting -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
With regard to assessing the pattern trajectories, only ... changes took place among the ensemble systems overnight bearing different implications than those we'd been discussing over the last few days. Short version: Intstead of going form a -WPO hybrid/stuck resonant pattern breakdown, into an at least low amplitude +PNA ... the cinemas now are relaying the former more directly into a -EPO. Longer version: The GEFs mean, in fact, went hugely amplified with it. I kind of kick myself here ... a little. Because the GEFs was hesitating all along. The nightly EOF calcs for the PNA was always the least +D(PNA) of the three. Then the overnight's went hard toward a reason why. This is the two-day total change spanning 348 to 300 hours out That does not represent a low amplitude +PNA. That is a dominating -EPO hemisphere there. I call that a big and sweeping change, because the implications are not the same. Yes, yes ...obviously, this is 300 hours blah blah blah... however, it matters if we are in the business of extended range/early risk assessing, which falls out of pattern recognition. Low amplitude +PNA will tend to host a different spectrum of risks compared to those correlated to nearing cross polar flow amplified -EPOs. I'm sure by now people are ready to pounce at those difference ...go for it. But, in the meantime, I strongly suspect the reason the 6-10th period is getting seeming blurred and less coherent as we approach, when in theory is should be getting better, may be tied to these sweeping changes taking place. 6-10th fit the PNA expectation for the last 3 or 4 days nicely. Above? not so much. So there may still be a window ... didn't wanna get into specific event coverage but I will just say, that period is still in the inflection window between the -WPO break down, then this emergence above. There could be an opportunity in there. Here's the EPS and the GEM, showing the same move toward a higher amplitude -EPO. The EPS shows the move but's subtler, admittedly... I don't think it necessarily diminishes the suspicions though, it still moved. It just all smacks pretty hard like we're heading for a different paradigm than we may have thought, one with a different spectrum of risk correlations. Colder in the means is one implication ... the best correlation over any attempt at a specific event, that's for sure. But I also want to remind... it was stated over the last couple days that this change is fluid/in itself, changeable. We basically were higher confidence of moving away from the erstwhile -WPO/hybrid weirdness... Where it ultimately goes ..heh. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Or actually … suppose it did stall/loop, it might’ve occluded and I’ve seen rad shred really quickly when that happens - it probably would’ve folded in on itself unexpectedly fast and that would’ve been how it left something on the table -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Yeah… Show me that Can you imagine the ecstatic fervency in this social media as that thing was congealing in the models? L O L It does remind me… I’ve had this conversation with other Mets. There’s always something that gets left on the table. Somehow someway, even the very best of the best. The GOATs are not even perfect. But … At some point you’re not noticing because everything else is just so overwhelming. Probably like the blizzard of 78? Maybe 1888? Few other argumentative’s in there over the hundred yrs. They’re like above the 95th percentile without fucking up. -
January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
I’ve crossed over some kind of gestational changing of mentality on that stuff… Yup, I guess I’m gettin’ old I want a 72 inch never ever has happened before OD dopa menace hyperbolic storm so powerful that the Earth hiccups in its orbit about the sun… all around me where I only get two inches within a diameter of about oh … say 10 miles or so, so I can still get out and about and do what I need to do. -
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January 2026 regional war/obs/disco thread
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Maybe the patterns only looked good on the surface… -
Ice Ice Baby December 28-29 Storm Discussion
Typhoon Tip replied to Baroclinic Zone's topic in New England
Must be black ice everywhere road surface is sparkling

