Seems to be a pretty weak consensus...
El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole remain neutral; negative IOD possible in late winter to early spring
Yea, our climo this close to the ocean lags the solar calendar by a good month...which is why our cold peaks from about 1/20 to 2/1 and snowfall from about 2/1 to 2/10...right up to warm-tushy-car-seat season.
High of 96 today after 91 yesterday.....look like will make 4 consecutive of 90+ through Wednesday.
My p&c for tomorrow has a high of 103 with a HI of 111...worst I could find....not the jack I yearn for
@Stormchaserchuck1..here are SSTs from Augus to November 2021, preceding the only -WPO DM since 2016-2017.
Now here is last year, which was featured a major DM +WPO...check out the difference around the Indian Ocean and even east of Japan...
This article seems to suggest a positive correlation between the AMO and WPO, which adds up intuitively based on the continued +AMO, but I haven't looked closely throughout history.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15998
Yea, I agree with this...I'm just saying there is a reason that -PNA/-NAO patterns have struggled more and it's the west Pacific. When they worked in the past, it was always with a -WPO.
We look poised for yet another +WPO season.....ugh.
Going to need to see some huge changes in the subsurface to see a Modoki, but I'm not overly concerned with orientation when ENSO is this weak...just not that important.