Stormchaserchuck1

Really respectable -NAO showing up in the long range on 12z GFS ensembles. Near +300dm on the mean south of Greenland at hr384.

I bought in at $48! Trying to decide whether to sell today, or hold on a little longer. That $50 mark was a top that held for 50 years when just about every other metal has hit a new all time high, so when it finally passed it, it accelerated. Gold had its 2nd best year since the 1970s in 2025. It has an Up signal for next year, per a method I've backtested..

Oct 1-30: +60 days Nov 1-15: +50 days Nov 15-30: +45 days Dec 1-15: +40 days Dec 15-30: +35 days Jan 1-15 +30 days Jan 15-30 +25 days Feb 1-20: +20 days Feb 20-March 30: +15 days Apr 1-15: +10 days Something like that..

Doesn't have to be a reversal to have impact/correlation

I don't know about that, but at the time of the Stratosphere warming long range weeklies were not showing a -NAO in the +30-35 day typical lag time. Maybe they were assuming it all happens at the same time and since the 10mb warming was waning without -NAO, that they thought that was the end of it? There is a spike in -NAO probability +35 days after a late November 10mb warming (it's a different lag time at different times in the cold season.. longer early in the Winter, and in early April it's as soon as +10 days.) 10mb warming events can happen as soon in the year as Sept 30, with a +60 day typical lag time to -NAO. Reflective is probably just an adjoining of the upper levels and 500mb. Sometimes they hit at Day+0 together, but the actual -NAO 500mb correlation is up to 3x higher +laggedtime.

I use 10mb anomaly as a base. It had to clear +1000 over a 8+ day period to qualify. I think that includes some weaker events.

Live and learn. I love techniques that have that kind of a lag time (>+20 days).. It should be noted that Stratosphere cooling events do not have a lag. They correlated with +AO at Day-0. This is for all times of the cold season.

You mean -NAO/-PNA, +NAO/+PNA

Oh, now you're using the snow depth map.

Hey Larry, Natural Gas March contract went up 7.5% today, while the January contract is up 11.5%. They two are pretty correlated so when there is a difference like that it tells me it's focusing on more shorter term. Since Europe uses NG heavily, a strong east-based -NAO here in the next week is a cold pattern for them. We could have used the late Nov Stratosphere warming to predict this NG move! Although if we got in late Nov, it still would have been a pretty substantial loss as there was a big move down throughout the month of December. $3.28 for the March contract is still cheap, but up from the $3.00 low. Under $4.50 basically implies a +NAO mean for the majority of the Winter, while over $4.50 would imply a mean -NAO pattern. I would guess that from now to March, the March NG contract rises from its current $3.28 price, I'd say probably about 65-70% likely.

Nice little surprise storm. Models put down about 2" of sleet here. GFS has 4" snowdepth, but that's probably mostly ice. I'm in a good position though, the cold air wedges in pretty good SW. And it's a daytime storm for once, should be pretty out!

Yeah everything bought into the warm pattern real quick as NG was forecasting the pattern to basically last all Winter. It's not a wall-to-wall torch pattern this Winter, imo.

We are getting a 5850dm block between England and Iceland in a few days.. a +600dm anomaly. This will be the 2nd +600dm anomaly in a few days, as we just had one over the Aleutian islands. It's an east-based -NAO. See how the late November Stratosphere warming correlates to -NAO in about +30-35 days?? I went all the way back to 1948 and found that pattern with a different lag time at different times of the cold season. But this is a major hit. Models didn't pick it up until the last few days.. it will be interesting to see if it's a common bias if an early Winter Stratosphere warming happens again in the next few years.

Lamar hasn't beat a team over .500 yet this season. His best win against an opponent was the 6-9 Dolphins.

Who cares about rain and 40s? This is the day after Christmas, looks fun!