Great stuff! I was wrong as well about the magnitude of the pna. Unfortunately, the 11-15 day can over smooth the anomalies but when we get closer certain signals trend stronger.
I completely agree, if this pna was just normal and centered over the Rockies it would have been a completely diff outcome for our area. The only thing the nao is doing is keeping it from being 70 degrees every day. If we didn’t have the nao currently we would be breaking record highs daily