As do I. But seasonal forecasting is still a budding field with low confidence so I'm not sure if there's much difference in skill between a forecaster's forecast and a model forecast.
Yeah we got 45" that month. I think there 2 other decent events beyond the big storm on November 20th. Must have just been cold and dry there, interesting.
Interesting, thanks. I figured bigger storms are harder to come by, but maybe a smattering of minor to moderate events could be done? How about something like November 2000?
I'd go for suppression and sheared mess to the southeast over cutter. The cold air dump from the -epo block and fast flow and mean trough position are decidely against a great lakes track.
The UKMET Glosea5 last fall forecasted a fairly strong -NAO for the winter. It didn't verify. But I mean if were just looking for the post-2013 era, the NAO has nearly constantly positive through winter.
November ECMWF Seasonal is out. +PNA/+NAO pattern. Big difference for December from October forecast with a beatdown of the WAR and lower heights and pressure over eastern North America extending into the central Atlantic.
It's on the emc page. It throws mid level warmth too far north of a sfc low so it over mixes but if anything it has a cold bias at the surface. That snow map from the gdps showed southern areas suffering from a torched bl not from too much ip/zr.
The thing with the gfs that bothers me is its inability to see the warm nose. It's useless for mixed precip but that was a thing before and after the fv3 upgrade. It's cold bias is through the whole lower atmosphere.
Mike V's maps looked more like Tropical Tidbits for the CanSIPS. It does look like the Weatherbell maps have erroneous ridging over central and northern Greenland. Weird.