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Be sure to take notes for the inevitable "what went wrong analysis" you have to write around 12/26 when the ensembles suddenly show a ridge from gulf to pole.

Gee, top analog 1985-01-21. Merely the day that RDU set it's all-time record low of an incredible -9 F. The height of the January 1985 polar outbreak.

That just makes me hungry for ChickFilA.

Yeah I know but there can be too much of a good thing there. Torch them too much and there is nothing there to displace, at least nothing helpful to us

Not a fan of seeing Canada and Siberia torching at the same time.

Well, in that panel it gives room for the trough axis to be west of us, which gives waves more room. Obviously there can be too much room at times. Everything is a balance.

That possibility is always on the table. Have to always keep that in mind.

Why is he not trustworthy? Does he steal snow from people's yards?

That could be written on any snow weenie's tombstone

Why not?

I feel like this board is 2 or 3 years ahead of this guy. Obsessing over the MHO and the Polar Vortex is soooo 2021. We've moved on to the PDI and the TNH and jet extensions

How much for Short Pump, ER I mean Mt PSU?

Also in 2021 the ensembles kept showing us getting a portion of the Midwest cold. It didn't happen. And yes I am still bitter.

2019 was always an epic-looking Week 3 of the weeklies. Sometimes the tail end of the ENS would start to look good but it would then disappear. Rinse and repeat all winter. Last year it was well it was progressing nicely from d16 up to d10. I seem to remember it breaking the d10 barrier at one point, and then completely collapsing.

We love you EJ, but if necessary we will trade your entire house for the snow...no offence.

Hmm, I believe you may be right. We've had so many duds lately they are all beginning to run together.

Happy anniversary @mappy. I believe this is 15?

Yes! 2020-21 was a dead ratter from the start. PSU called it in an epic (and soul-crushing) post on December 30th. However, at some point in late Jan or early Feb I think all guidance was showing a major pattern improvement which then collapsed when one small detail in the run-up went differently than they foresaw...PSU had an epic post about that as well. Lot of epic posts from PSU over this bad period. These years have been bad for snow but good for his literary output. And I mean that in an appreciative way.

That year was a scary one. The return of the -NAO after 10 years. I remember everyone being angry and puzzled when someone, maybe Ji, was complaining that despite the good 500 pattern temps were normal at best. Several, including myself, observed that we had had a record warm ++++AO episode in November that had really hurt the source regions, so that the December blocking had no cold to work with. That was true...but the disturbing thing is that a November torch shouldn't have destroyed the rest of winter like that. But it did, or if not destroy it, it certainly limited the upside severely.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. You don't have to work hard to convince me: I'm already living in elephant-land. In my area I think we've already passed the tipping point. The one bright side for me is I personally truly enjoy cold in and off itself, so I can get joy out cold dry periods like we just had. I know that's not your cup of tea. I do think there is some legitimate question of how much we might recover if we can get out of the super-PDO (and perhaps the +AMO?). I'm 100% certain that this isn't 100% of the problem, but is it 10%, 20%, 50%, 80%? If we could get back to 80% of say the 90s/2000s, I think that would be a victory.

Not sure if this will verify, but it it does, we deserve it!! During this -PDOom period, cold has been shunted away from the eastern Conus like we had a laser shield around us. Which, with the SER, we kind of have had a shield..

If Nigerian scammers started sending e-mails to east coast snow weenies to release feet of impounded Nigerian snow for a small up-front payment, I'm not completely confident we could all resist the temptation.

I see we have finally made it into phase 6 on the MJO as of yesterday. We had spent the entire month in 5. Looking to pick up speed and head into 7. Will that do anything meaningful for us? I have no idea.

You'll get dry cold, with some warm/wet interludes, and like it.

That's definitely the downside of relying on -EPO. Will we see "domestic" cold return to workability when/if the PDO shifts? Only time will tell.