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January 1996 you mean?

I had thought that record was broken a few years ago in Mongolia.

I did not realize your powers were so...powerful.

Phase 1: Establish Cold Phase 2:... Phase 3:... PROFIT...er I mean SNOW.

Responding to @H2O comment about running the A/C on Xmas (I have forgotten how to transfer responses between threads) Xmas 2015 was right at 80 °F in NC. And it wasn't just a one or two day thing either. I think there was a 10 day period where we didn't go below 60 °F. And it was quite humid as well. Not my favorite holiday memory. Overall December 2015 shattered the record for the warmest December on record. To give you even more idea, if December 2015 had been a November, it would have been well above average for Novembers. New Years Day for this year had a high of 79 °C at RDU and was also quite humid. That warm spell wasn't as prolonged as Xmas 2015 but still a mood-killer. For some reason since 2015 the 10 or so days from the solstice to New Years have been mostly a horror show of torches, with the notable exception of 2017. But even then it was warm before Xmas. Xmas day was chilly and then the bottom fell out afterwards.

I am well experienced. For some reason though I can't get off the roller coaster, even though I know intellectually that I should.

And that includes me.

My SE brethren are all excited about the 18Z GFZ. We never learn.

Probably back here again

Ok, we are off the peak and are headed to the next trough.

Perfecto.

And we have now officially begun to worry that we may be too cold/dry/suppressed. Even got mentioned in my home forum. @H2O do you have a good meme for this?

Is that tongue of blue in the Northwest Territories something to worry about? Don't remember seeing on recent runs.

What does it mean to say that the primary is "rotting"?

That's actually BN for my area, at least for a high. Maybe there are warm nights due to cloud cover? Edit: By the way I realize that I am a guest in this forum and the anomalies in Wilson NC is of little to no interest to most of you. But doesn't look too bad up in the heart of the you guys' area: mid to upper 30s in the urban areas, maybe lower 30s in the outlying areas.

One thing I took away from some of the info people posted yesterday is that the MJO is basically dormant right now. So we do get a nice period it won't be due to the MJO. So I guess its nice to know that it is not the end-all-be-all. Still frustrating that it seems physically incapable of running through 7-8-1-2 at decent amplitude. Hopefully that is partially due to the endless Nina, but I remember that it was pegged in the bad phases back in 2018-2019 as well, which was a Nino.

That being said, for those of us who also love cold in and of itself, the bar can be lower. I'm salivating at the prospect of it actually being, you know, cold in the week before Christmas, instead of it being tropical like it has been all too frequently this past decade. And the chances look decent.

It's even worse for us SE weenies. The difference between a shut-out pattern and a ripe one is the difference between a 99.9% fail rate and a 95% fail rate. And yet we still track. Says something about us.

Wow. Cold from Baffin to Yucatan. We all know it won't verify that cold, but we could be pretty chilly across much of NA.

Looks like the northern great plains might be a wee bit chilly right before Xmas.

As a North American sports fan who did not grow up with Soccer, I'm conflicted about the whole concept of penalty kicks. I really like how soccer really embraces the concept of a tie as a realistic and reasonable outcome: not everything in life is a clear cut win or loss. Ties seem to disgust and almost enrage NA sports fans. Since the NFL has gone to the current overtime rules ties have become exponentially more common and I have a real fear that backlash against the more common tie will lead to the NFL adopting something like the NCAA format, which I dislike. Of course in a knockout tournament you can't have ties because SOMEONE has to move forward to the next round. But it sucks to see 90+ minutes of game decided on just a small facet of the game itself. I can 't think of any better alternative though.

NAD1983 is a godless Communist plot. In my house we stick to NAD27.

BAM storm.

I wonder if Mappy's wedding invitations listed the ceremony time in z.

And so it begins.