I feel like this pattern is similar to recent years where we can't get the -PNA to eject s/w's at us...instead we get huge cutoffs in the desert SW and by the time they ever migrate towards us they just get shredded because of how zonal the flow is over the eastern US. Idk, I'm probably talking out of my arse but that's what I see. Nothing is ever able to amplify and it's starting to feel like a permanent issue.