Heh...so I was right about the very strong PV in January...but the fact that its decoupled is killing my forecast for +AO/NAO. More palatable error IMO.
I don't love the low over se Canada.....what is up with that lack of +pp? All we hear about is this arctic wasteland pattern ensuing....then we get the bomb solution, and poof....
I do TBH.....I would rather see that than the cut off hanging out with @raindancewx
I will go out on a limb and say the GEFS mean will be east of this depiction-
Also, I never meant that every RNA/neg NAO pattern would do that, either....ovviously the individual patterns matter...just that its possible its becoming more prevalent.
This is true. But I did see some pretty convincing composites from Bluewave. I guess we will have to see how much this secondary nadir of the Pac cold phase has biased things.
Does anyone need to be convinced that ambient heights are greater now than in the past? Obviously that is going to make adjoining ridges more common.
I do agree that extreme cases like 2022 will exaggerate that...