What sucks for the 2/20 period is that the southern stream temporarily decided to go quite when we have the big PV sitting just to our north.
In El Niño, once you have a PV to our north, you often get the big dog when the STJ amplifies into it…but instead, we have very little southern stream action until a few days later…which may produce something in the 2/23-24 timeframe but it’s more precarious by that point.