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For what it’s worth, Cosgrove and Bam are in the same boat. Cosgrove has been saying look out for mid-late Jan since early fall.

I like Bam’s thinking the most. If you didn’t watch today’s LR video on YouTube, give it a watch. This is likely to be transient warmth followed by transient cold we’re seeing show up. @wncsnowis spot on with Bam’s comments. The pattern isn’t supportive for sustained cold + moisture (right now). I still think we need to move the Aleutian pig before that comes. Luckily, as we move past that week 2 period of Jan, we may finally get the help we need in that department with some tropical forcing.

That would align with the MJO progression

Euro op, the ai ops and to a degree, even the gfs picked up on it before the ensembles. Quite jarring to see.

lol. Weather can humble even the most arrogant folks.

Overrated torch and Friday is trending towards 40s. .

You indeed called the potential early on. I hope McDowell gets 20”.

Aligns with Bam’s original forecast for the period into and after new years. He’s now saying Jan 7th is a date that needs to be circled on the east coast.

Are we wedging out of Friday’s heat wave? .

It’s the trashFS but not gonna lie, that happy hour run was fun.

What does everyone want? Don’t tell me a foot+, that’s obvious. Give me something more attainable. I’ll start: I would love about 6” of snow with a delayed warm nose that delivers a 1” blanket of sleet on top. Sledding for days on the ice sheet with my daughter and brutal cold on the backside.

Jan 22 had a very fun miller b

Next week looks downright chilly

I agree but we’re not looking at what I’d call a true -PNA. A ridge centered over Montana can work all the same. It’s a -PNA on paper because it wouldn’t be centered right over the west coast and it’s not a particularly sharp ridge.

A lot of Baja lows in 12z. Wonder if we could kick one east.

I do agree that post-Jan 7 looks mighty tasty rn. That’s roughly when winter started in earnest last year.

Is the Pacific uncooperative though? If we keep trending towards blocking and an eastern trough, you're going to get a ridge out west even if it isn’t in a perfect position and a true +PNA look. The pacific jet will be sort of irrelevant because the only way you’re scoring anyways is to have an anchored high north of us, which will feed the cold. Point being, I’m not exactly fretting about Pacific air when we have a continental source to tap into. Another thing. If we keep getting blocking, that ridge is going west. It won’t be your quintessential +PNA look, but an Idaho/Montana ridge works here. Heck, a Seattle ridge tends to leave room for storms to cut.

24.4° - got a bit lower than I had anticipated

I’m not on the board with a cold Feb yet but with a decreasing Niña influence, I don’t think it’s out of the question to at least be near average. That would be a huge shift from years of late.

The Panthers are still playing meaningful football in December, so I’ve got hope that cold can come back

I’ll always have my Dec 8th 2025 flizzard

The cruel irony about a -NAO with a raging Aleutian ridge is we’re going to be warm and wet. We’ll finally have a mechanism for digging and getting the moisture here.

It has zero ensemble support so we’ll see. Even if it did, I don’t want to be in the bullseye for at least another 6 days. That time period does look interesting though. It seems like we get a brief break from warmth but it’s an all or nothing type of look.

65-68 will be nice for the kids to get outside and play with their gifts. I’m looking forward to some hiking and fishing these next 10 days.

I’m thankful and glad we had the 3 week stretch we did, it was great. But I think it’s perfectly normal to be a tad annoyed we’re headed into prime climo on a warm streak. You’re right though, it is what it is and it can’t be changed. I’m a big 4 seasons guy. I get salty less about the snow part and more of the me having to break out the shorts Christmas morning