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Moving on to mid/late November


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The AAM is sliding back down again, solidifying the RNA. Usually, this whole thing retrogrades and that will put the trough back along the East Coast again as we enter December.

It is going to take a ridiculous +EPO / Alaskan PV to keep the NAO from going deeply negative which is what the models are showing in the extended. Once this feature retrogrades and the ridge comes back across the Rockies, we may get a late-October styled +h5 anomaly again.

I am still impressed with the pattern basically now through the next 7 days. This is a very 1955-like picture with a deep NAO pattern and a transpolar ridge.

http://www.esrl.noaa.../images/nao.png

CPC charts are close to ludicrous in terms of NAO state.

I mentioned this morning that the anomalies pull west a bit which try to pump heights up in the west and heights try to rise in the Davis Straits again. It might be false, but the whole retrogression idea has been around for a few days now. The argument is that Canada torches and it does warm, but it's still pretty chilly north of 50N..especially when you get to the longitude of the Great Lakes.

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The AAM is sliding back down again, solidifying the RNA. Usually, this whole thing retrogrades and that will put the trough back along the East Coast again as we enter December.

Supported by the GEFS...backing off on the MJO impulse that they had two days ago. When I last looked the Euro ensembles had the MJO in the COD by the end of the month while the GEFS had a moderate phase 1. Since then the GEFS have trended towards the Euro camp.

The change you noted is well advertised in the H5 height anomalies. The three links below show the GEFS trying to dictate the pattern change over a 10+ day period (occurring slowly, admittedly) as the west coast trough retrogrades towards the GOA.

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ENSHGTAVGNH_12z/f156.gif

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ENSHGTAVGNH_12z/f240.gif

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ENSHGTAVGNH_12z/f360.gif

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The west is having a wall-to-wall great pattern with no breaks in NOVEMBER....I don't know about the rest of you, but if that were taking place here, I couldn't help but feel as though it were being wasted (especially here on the cp) and be terrified of the timing of a potential flip.

It's probably been at least 35 years since we had wall to wall winter November through March.

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Supported by the GEFS...backing off on the MJO impulse that they had two days ago. When I last looked the Euro ensembles had the MJO in the COD by the end of the month while the GEFS had a moderate phase 1. Since then the GEFS have trended towards the Euro camp.

The change you noted is well advertised in the H5 height anomalies. The three links below show the GEFS trying to dictate the pattern change over a 10+ day period (occurring slowly, admittedly) as the west coast trough retrogrades towards the GOA.

http://www.meteo.psu...NH_12z/f156.gif

http://www.meteo.psu...NH_12z/f240.gif

http://www.meteo.psu...NH_12z/f360.gif

That's been modeled for a few days now. Like anything, it will take time. Some people are fixated that we have to go ballz deep into winter starting Thanksgiving.

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Same crap, last fall....woe is me because fall wasn't winter....only this year it WAS, yet we still see it.

Some of the signs I saw this summerfall just do no precede dead ratters....period.

Strongly agree. It seems ridiculous but the animals know better sometimes...and the squirrels are giving a huge signal.

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Supported by the GEFS...backing off on the MJO impulse that they had two days ago. When I last looked the Euro ensembles had the MJO in the COD by the end of the month while the GEFS had a moderate phase 1. Since then the GEFS have trended towards the Euro camp.

The change you noted is well advertised in the H5 height anomalies. The three links below show the GEFS trying to dictate the pattern change over a 10+ day period (occurring slowly, admittedly) as the west coast trough retrogrades towards the GOA.

http://www.meteo.psu...NH_12z/f156.gif

http://www.meteo.psu...NH_12z/f240.gif

http://www.meteo.psu...NH_12z/f360.gif

There are definitely a good amount of GFS ensemble members bringing the East Coast cold back Nov 24-28. If you look back since late October, the entire N PAC state has been retrograding and I see no reason why this won't continue. New 12z ECMWF is showing the retogression as well, moving the BC PV to the Aleutians by the end of the run.

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That's been modeled for a few days now. Like anything, it will take time. Some people are fixated that we have to go ballz deep into winter starting Thanksgiving.

You've got that right. A few weeks ago I went with Dec 15 for the date when we'll be getting into full swing -- may be a hair late, but I figured this would take some time.

I would like to get some snow on T-day though. There have been three or four years in the past several years where my house in Vermont has been lucky with some accumulating snow on T-day. It's awesome to get up there and have a white thanksgiving morning and hit the mountains for some skiing.

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There are definitely a good amount of GFS ensemble members bringing the East Coast cold back Nov 24-28. If you look back since late October, the entire N PAC state has been retrograding and I see no reason why this won't continue. New 12z ECMWF is showing the retogression as well, moving the BC PV to the Aleutians by the end of the run.

Yeah, it's a slow process. I doubt this thing flips fully by the end of the month. But I can't say I am disappointed with where we are at right now.

Regardless of the Oct snow and the hopes for a wintry pattern by now...the reality is that guidance is trying to bring us into a more favorable pattern by Mid December..with the inclusion of some good blocking and higher height anomalies towards the Davis Straight. Can't really complain about that. We'll see where the next few weeks take us.

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You've got that right. A few weeks ago I went with Dec 15 for the date when we'll be getting into full swing -- may be a hair late, but I figured this would take some time.

I would like to get some snow on T-day though. There have been three or four years in the past several years where my house in Vermont has been lucky with some accumulating snow on T-day. It's awesome to get up there and have a white thanksgiving morning and hit the mountains for some skiing.

If we see the euro and even the GFS extrapolate out, it might pop something interesting in the first week of December, but at that point..we still can't be sure if any winter interlude is here to stay because it may be transient with another yo-yo ride before things try to stabilize. That's how things transpire sometimes. I still want to see that EPO switch in the next couple of weeks. That's killing things right now.

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Yeah, it's a slow process. I doubt this thing flips fully by the end of the month. But I can't say I am disappointed with where we are at right now.

Regardless of the Oct snow and the hopes for a wintry pattern by now...the reality is that guidance is trying to bring us into a more favorable pattern by Mid December..with the inclusion of some good blocking and higher height anomalies towards the Davis Straight. Can't really complain about that. We'll see where the next few weeks take us.

Quite amazing the similarities to last year really both in sensible weather and impatient worryworts.

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It was colder last year.

Not much, remember the four rainstorm cutters we had before the 20 th of Dec? Everyone was sure that was our pattern. The cold shot Frid- Sat looks impressive and then at day ten we see a much different look.

Nov 10

1 51 35 43 -6 22 0 0.00 0.0 0 12.9 20 320 M M 4 26 330

2 49 37 43 -6 22 0 0.00 0.0 0 8.1 17 320 M M 5 22 320

3 51 32 42 -7 23 0 0.00 0.0 0 6.4 14 260 M M 3 17 260

4 52 39 46 -2 19 0 0.78 0.0 0 12.3 29 40 M M 9 1 39 40

5 62 47 55 7 10 0 0.38 0.0 0 8.1 24 240 M M 9 1 30 230

6 50 42 46 -2 19 0 0.00 0.0 0 9.5 16 20 M M 7 20 30

7 45 37 41 -7 24 0 0.14 0.0 0 13.6 24 320 M M 9 1 32 320

8 50 36 43 -4 22 0 0.43 T 0 20.3 41 40 M M 10 1 54 20

9 53 46 50 3 15 0 0.06 0.0 0 13.8 23 10 M M 10 1 30 10

10 48 42 45 -2 20 0 0.07 0.0 0 16.8 28 20 M M 8 1 35 20

11 50 39 45 -1 20 0 0.00 0.0 0 13.5 30 40 M M 2 37 40

12 56 39 48 2 17 0 0.00 0.0 0 8.1 14 40 M M 0 16 30

13 61 41 51 5 14 0 0.00 0.0 0 4.5 10 320 M M 1 20 290

14 52 41 47 1 18 0 0.00 0.0 0 7.9 15 60 M M 7 18 60

15 52 47 50 5 15 0 0.00 0.0 0 4.7 10 70 M M 10 1 12 50

16 53 49 51 6 14 0 0.04 0.0 0 7.9 17 110 M M 9 18 22 100

17 64 49 57 12 8 0 0.90 M 0 19.9 36 270 M M 8 1 47 280

18 54 41 48 4 17 0 0.00 0.0 0 14.5 33 280 M M 4 43 280

19 45 35 40 -4 25 0 0.00 0.0 0 8.6 17 290 M M 4 24 270

20 54 34 44 0 21 0 0.00 0.0 0 12.9 26 290 M M 5 39 290

21 39 32 36 -7 29 0 0.00 0.0 0 9.2 15 10 M M 6 21 350

22 56 37 47 4 18 0 T 0.0 0 11.0 18 220 M M 9 23 230

23 62 51 57 14 8 0 0.00 0.0 0 9.4 28 290 M M 9 1 41 300

24 51 34 43 1 22 0 0.00 0.0 0 19.9 31 300 M M 2 45 300

25 41 31 36 -6 29 0 0.00 0.0 0 10.1 21 290 M M 6 29 300

26 47 34 41 0 24 0 0.16 0.0 0 9.9 22 280 M M 7 1 33 290

27 43 32 38 -3 27 0 0.00 0.0 0 12.6 28 280 M M 5 37 270

28 45 28 37 -4 28 0 0.00 0.0 0 11.0 22 290 M M 2 32 320

29 46 35 41 1 24 0 0.00 0.0 0 6.3 10 160 M M 2 15 150

30 49 34 42 2 23 0 T 0.0 0 6.8 15 110 M M 7 17 130

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SM 1531 1156 597 0 2.96 T 330.5 M 179

Nov 11

1 54 40 47 -2 18 0 0.00 0.0 M 7.1 16 80 M M 7 20 90

2 54 39 47 -2 18 0 0.00 0.0 M 6.6 10 130 M M 2 13 130

3 63 42 53 5 12 0 0.00 0.0 M 10.0 20 230 M M 4 18 25 220

4 53 38 46 -2 19 0 0.00 0.0 M 13.8 24 320 M M 6 31 350

5 49 36 43 -5 22 0 0.00 0.0 0 7.8 15 350 M M 1 18 350

6 59 36 48 0 17 0 0.00 0.0 M 10.5 18 230 M M 0 30 260

7 65 42 54 7 11 0 0.00 0.0 0 9.0 14 240 M M 2 21 270

8 69 51 60 13 5 0 0.00 0.0 M 5.1 9 300 M M 2 10 300

9 67 47 57 10 8 0 0.00 0.0 0 5.6 13 180 M M 1 18 17 210

10 60 52 56 10 9 0 1.05 0.0 M 4.3 14 300 M M 10 12 24 330

11 58 41 50 4 15 0 T M M 16.3 31 270 M M 6 43 270

12 53 37 45 -1 20 0 0.00 0.0 M 12.9 26 220 M M 1 32 220

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We are probably going to have a very good winter, but in the mean time, we have this lovely weather as a very savory appetizer....woe is me.

The true winter weather will come in due time. Sooner vs. later remains to be seen. But, with 2 measurable events and double digits for many (most?) will have many folks ahead of normal snowfall-wise through at least mid-December.

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The reservation was beautiful, nice to be up in the hills, just a spectacular day!

Drove back on 35 east and 33 south, the devestation in Ridgefield was jaw dropping, COT trucks chipping and cutting wood, piles everywhere, two weeks later I cant even imgaine how bad it was.

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The true winter weather will come in due time. Sooner vs. later remains to be seen. But, with 2 measurable events and double digits for many (most?) will have many folks ahead of normal snowfall-wise through at least mid-December.

53.1/40

I know...I don't get it.

2000-01\2008-09, here we come.

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