We need to see the whiff models trend towards the GFS/CMC, GFS AI was a start.
It's ok if the GFS/CMC aren't a bullseye yet but ensembles and other models need to trend towards them.
Agreed about the budget cuts. People have no idea how detrimental they've been to the public along with everything else horrible the administration has done to government agencies.
Well it's more than just faster flow. It's more about competing influences that don't mesh together and a lot of that is due to multiple areas of forcing in the Pacific.
We've also had a dearth of southern stream systems.