Don - the SOI has been way above average between moderately strong and extremely above average for seemingly weeks now.
I presume this despite MJO/ CCKW crossing the pacific - nonetheless it is reinforcing a La Niña pattern . Can this lend confidence to at least next 4 months ?
even if things suddenly changed - isn’t this La Niña pattern baked into future at this point ?
i am not sure but presume we are safe with La Nina styled pattern for summer at this point .
mot sure where we stand statistically at this point although this is quite anonymous with a third year La Niña .
This from Twitter from Dr Alecia Bentley on severe storms in northeast and why certain o patterns over-perform (maybe explaining tonight’s underperformance)
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/32/5/waf-d-17-0044_1.xml
Pretty cool graphic depiction for wind direction at Islip. Didn’t know they analyze this like that. I believe Bluewave has done stats on wind direction for each season.
Jeez I blew it in April - didn’t foresee below normal even with solid forecast for blocking.
much more cautious for May despite predicted breaking down of AO/NAO.
DCA: +0.5
NYC: +0.5
BOS: +0.2
ORD: -0.2
ATL: +1.0
IAH: +1.3
DEN: +0.8
PHX: +1.2
SEA: +0.2
i don’t have a good feel. April turned our colder than I thought . A bit gun shy now. Cool start NE with warmer finish ?
I drove from Smithtown (Landing Ave area) to Stony Brook around 6pm and roads were covered with snow and it was a slow drive, so it definitely iced up. On way back just now from Stony Brook to Smithtown and roads were treated.
I have hated the winters since 2012-13
since then it’s been a mass negative EPO driving winter after winter and I’m sick of it.
I will always love 2002-2003 to 2010-11 far more.
We’ve just had brutal and ruinous springs since the big climate change
the massive EPO is now what determines winter.. and it’s sad bc it doesn’t measure up to the massive negative Ao/NAO era