I wonder if the sig piece of the PV being trapped in C Can, as a result of the sswe, is kind of the wildcard the weeklies were not seeing in runs several weeks ago? Both the EPS and especially the 18z gefs want to weaken and split this. I think it is possible that during this evolution as one piece heads WNW toward AK and the other toward SE Canada we are just seeing a slight reshuffle and the pattern relaxing. Having this vortex split hopefully opens the door to ridging in C Canada and also makes ridging in the NAO region much more likely. Maybe this Pac crap head fake is just the models trying to figure out exactly how this evolves and hopefully it's actually what we need.