40/70 Benchmark

Will be interesting to see how close we get this year...my guess is 2015 like.

2015 not far off, either.....likely also at least somewhat related to the residual MC influence we have discussed.

Nothing wrong with posting data....I just mentioned it looks just like 2023. Is that likely? Not IMO, but possible if Chuck is right about the N Pacific.

I think 15-16 is possible...97 and 82 is unlikely. That being said, I think in the absence of a N Pac vortex, assuming that is the case, the range of potential outcomes this winter would expand because we maybe less prone to an overwhelming Pac jet.

My position is in between both of you....I don't think it's merely a coincidence, as there are plenty of signs that El Nino has not yet coupled with the mid latitudes throughout the N Hem....however, Chuck seems more resigned to the fact that that won't change for winter than I am.

Heh... @Typhoon Tip

Man, the latest CFS is how you watch 'ole man winter swallow a pistol.....brutal combination of east-based El Nino overlaid onto residual MC regime....look familiar? It should-

If ever there were a season to be leery of disregarding ENSO in favor of CC-oriented conceptualizations, it's this one.

Looking at the orientation of the vortex up north and the slope of the height field out west, I would be willing to hedge "white over wet", especially for the interior, in this map VERBATIM. IMHO, while it isn't a cold pattern with that raging PAC jet, what cold is available would be streamlined into our quadrant of the country. Like Will said, if that GOA low ever found it's way 1000 miles west, then the sky would be the limit...but I don't anticipate that.

AFTER the first week of September. I give it a cursory glance as I do the contributors on this site as far as the winter outlook goes....but personally, I'm not fond of his presentation.... has this way of going about it where as he never actually commits himself to anything, and I think his interpretation of ENSO leaves a great deal to be desired. He clings to these archaic, over simplified generalizations, such as "winter will rock if ENSO weakens quickly"...his understanding of ENSO is quite crude and not nuanced enough. It's apparent that he doesn't have a firm grasp of local climo when viewing his storm maps for the region.

That's +PNA/-NAO...don't mistake the blue shading out west in association with an immense PAC jet as RNA....look at the height lines..see how they have a gentle WNW - ESE slope? That is a subtle +PNA.

Not him...you are obsessed with DT. Joe Karnik

Guy I trust said after the first week of September.