Couldn't have said it better myself. And how appropriate would it be for this thing to cleanly phase on the 25th and 130th anniversary of two of the greatest such occurrences in the annals.
This is way more phased. Also, Cranky must be sweating a little. That real-time cyclone tracker he'd been pointing to as sending the low way east has been backing northwest hard towards Hatteras.
It's a fascinating picture, the pumped up PNA, the block, the nosing in northern stream, the incipient baroclinic leaf. Beautiful stuff. Can't wait to see what it looks like tomorrow!