I dont agree. The strong ridging further south shows that theres no effective blocking response. It looks more like the -epo +nao winters weve seen of late as opposed to the 2000s classic -NAOs.
The cfs is definitely -nao. The cansips is debatable. It doesnt look like the positive anomalies in northern greenland are affecting the upstream pattern.
Strongest winds were on the canadian side as the low took a while to get going. Kingston to 107 km/h (66 mph) and Montreal to 105 km/h (65 mph) is not too shabby. Im still a bit suspicious of port colburne obs. I know its on the pier but the ob of 102g130 km/h is super intense and seemingly out of whack compared to other sites and the synoptics.
The wind was a medium type high wind event. Nothing particularly special. It was early in the year with leaves still on trees and saturated unfrozen ground That makes a big difference with re: damage and outages. The sieche was solid and i believe highest in a while (10 ft 6") but some of that is due to the very high antecedent lake levels (running 4 ft over low water datum).
Yes, I remember that study. I don't believe the new FV3 has changed much, the GFS and GEM have been running toe to toe and considerably behind the ECMWF and UKMET for some time.
These were chosen based on best matches re: summer into fall for ENSO, TNI, PDO, AMO, QBO, NAO and solar. I haven't checked on the snowfall result in those years for the northeast.
Dynamical guidance is in solid agreement on ENSO neutral conditions. Are you assuming its wrong? Or do you think the very warm nino 4 will keep it acting like a weak El Nino?
Only in the sense that is "gradient" or compressed flow pattern. Youll never see those rediculous anomalies on a seasonal model but theres large enough differences in the epo region to keep the cold air from invading Canada.