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This is also supportive of a +PNA January.

I don't think January will be cold in the mean because the second half cold will largely serve to negate the first half warmth. I think February and/or March will be colder.

Yea, but the PV isn't stout, either....you don't need February 2010 blocking to slide just under neutral in the monthly mean (NAO). This will be a good snowfall pattern for NE, but not the mid atl...agree. No KUs, but rather a series of moderate snowfalls owed to WAA/SWFEs. January will be the +PNA mismatch month this season....take that to the bank.

Another interesting tidbit about the modern climate that @Stormchaserchuck1has pointed out is the tendency for -NAO intervals to coincide with -PNA.....which is important considering there should be some -NAO episodes early on. I think there was also a graphic he posted concerning the negative correlation for the following December after a strongly +PNA (last year)....not to mention the GLAAM being significantly more negative than last year. This dove tailed nicely into my expectation for a rapid recovery of the PV and lead into a January reflection event triggering a mid season +TNH pattern.

TBH, I was nervous that I should have incorporated more of the December 2000 MJO behavior (phase 8) and gone colder, but I have learned to err on the side of caution with respect to that in this modern era (see Bluewave).

I'm interested to see if DT starts to sweat when he releases the this week in WX video.

I'm sure my forecast will go astray at some point, but I've learned so much about the strat this summer and fall.

Problem is that today not enough people are concerned with thinking critically.... and just want to generate clicks on social media while touching themselves to red colors near the North Pole.

There is a reason most +TNH reflection events occur in January/February, and major SSWs that include a zonal wind reversal are exceedingly rare in December. It's not a coincidence at all.

It was clear as day looking at analogs that this would be a reflection event...should get mild for early January, and then go +TNH with a stout PV by mid month. The real SSW should come after that...probably second week of February.

Okay. Bump away...in fact, I'll probably save you the trouble.

I do some of that if I am no getting the look that I am striving for on the monthlies, but it's not based off of a model run.

Thank you so much to the few who actually sit down and read this word-for-word....I know so few do given I don't have a significant following and I put so much time and work into it. Appreciate it.

Vote.

I'll post a December update either late this week or next weekend.

Gee, that December anomaly map looks familiar...where have I seen it before..maybe a few weeks ago? Oh, yea....

Not that I observed.

Yea, first flakes here this evening.

Excellent post...mic drop-

Se Canada will be cold...they can cut all they want, it will have to snow at this latitude to advect the warmer air from the inland primary, and a triple point low will pop INVO cape cod as a byproduct of the initial resitance from the CAD.

I have a learned a ton from your material.

I'll bet you $100 I have a plowable event of 3" or greater by the end of the second week of December (14th).

Yea, I said back to approaching climo by Xmas week, and that run reflects that.

Yea, I wasn't trying to insinuate that you should take that particular run verbatim, but rather my point was that that the overall pattern matched my composite qualitatively speaking.