40/70 Benchmark

My point is there is nothing on the imminent horizon worth salvaging.

If you aren't in patterns conducive to east coast amplification, you either get cutters, or suppressed systems in really cold patterns that can't turn up the coast...sound familiar to the past several seasons?

Hope and Pray for -NAO....why? Please, let's hold onto the bitter wind chills and dearth of storms for just a few more weeks...please, oh pretty please... I'm ready to rinse and then make one more go of it before my fantasy baseball draft.

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Not really. I'd be stunned if we didn't see blocking in March.

Pretty close...I'm at 39.5".

Makes sense, as there is usually a break right when the SSW takes place,.

It will because it won't meet the 5 consecutive months at or blow -0.5 criteria, but I considered it a La Niña, anyway....per MEI and RONI.

That looks like the Jan 2022 band that croacked I 95...I suffered the same fate as you lol

It's not an official La Nina, no.

Agree!!! Candidate for post of the year!!!

Probably centered on when the actual split is taking place.

Take a look at set ups with decidedly +EPO/+WPO/-NAO...promise it won't be this cold, and often downright mild...we've seen some examples over the past several years.

No it hasn't, the North Pacific has. -NAO can prevent a torch and help to lock cold in when it matters, but it's not the source of this arctic flow.

No, it impacted March, but the extreme RNA still worked mid atlantic and SNE.