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Moving on to mid/late November


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No model run goes out to mid December unless you are looking at that clown CFS model that runs out like a year in advance.

no one wants to look at the monthly maps

if it is anywhere close to being right, DEC is the only cold month, and average or just below at best

rest of the winter torches and is dry

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That's what I'm afraid of. But, nobody wants to hear it and instead, break out d10 op progs. I certainly hope it doesn't wait until then, but I wouldn't be shocked. In my head, I was thinking maybe 1st week of December for something credible, but I could see a switch back to warmer weather afterwards before perhaps..something more sustainable.

what i'm not a fan of is looping through 2+ weeks of north america ensemble plots and *essentially* seeing the same pattern reload, reload, reload.

of course, the pattern doesn't have to become a solidly below normal one temp-wise to be wintry (though i think that helps a lot in december) once we get deeper into the season.

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Caution, careful..don't want to go against the grain..caution, throw the flags..dry hump the indices..caution caution. +10 to +15 continues into 2nd wek of Dec

Who is saying that. Why are you being so delusional? Just because we don't have a "pattern change", doesn't mean you can't get snow in December. Hopefully for your sake, and the safety of your family..it comes sooner.

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what i'm not a fan of is looping through 2+ weeks of north america ensemble plots and *essentially* seeing the same pattern reload, reload, reload.

of course, the pattern doesn't have to become a solidly below normal one temp-wise to be wintry (though i think that helps a lot in december) once we get deeper into the season.

It won't take much to help out...just weaken the -PNA and squish the se ridge a few hundred miles and it would be ok. The way that AK trough is aligned with an extension to the se...it is promoting a se ridge. With no blocking..we risk going to the warmer side. If we kept that -PNA...all we need is for an Aleutian high to develop and dump the cold from the NW Territories into the US, but I don't see the teleconnections in Asia helping out right now. Key is...right now. There are subtle signs that heights want to rise near the Aleutians at the end of the EC ensembles, but it's a stretch.

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Who is saying that. Why are you being so delusional? Just because we don't have a "pattern change", doesn't mean you can't get snow in December. Hopefully for your sake, and the safety of your family..it comes sooner.

Yeah we don't need sustained cold to get snow once we start rolling through December, esp for the interior....but all else equal you'd rather have it. Right along the coast would like to see the cold a bit more. Dec '96 and '97 both saw sizable snow events despite being warm months....ditto December 1998 for Cape Cod.

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Over the course of the past several years, its also been easy to lose sight of the fact that December is not traditionally a very snowy month in these parts, either......winter can still rage on if the majority of the region sees ~10", as opposed to the anomalous 20-35" of the past several.

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Over the course of the past several years, its also been easy to lose sight of the fact that December is not traditionally a very snowy month in these parts, either......winter can still rage on if the majority of the region sees ~10", as opposed to the anomalous 20-35" of the past several.

exactly. until the second half of this decade, i always looked to after xmas for sustained cold/snow.

we've had some stretches of bitter cold over the last several decembers...and prolonged cold snaps too.

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exactly. until the second half of this decade, i always looked to after xmas for sustained cold/snow.

we've had some stretches of bitter cold over the last several decembers...and prolonged cold snaps too.

I know it. I'm not used to these ridiculous Decembers that we have been having. I used to look at December as a transition month in this area. However, it also used to snow in March...lol.

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no one wants to look at the monthly maps

if it is anywhere close to being right, DEC is the only cold month, and average or just below at best

rest of the winter torches and is dry

I can't find the thread but basically the verification scores suggest the CFS is useless....no better than a coin flip.

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exactly. until the second half of this decade, i always looked to after xmas for sustained cold/snow.

we've had some stretches of bitter cold over the last several decembers...and prolonged cold snaps too.

Back in the day growing up, I'd be just chilln' in my Starter Pull-over jackets not expecting much snow until after xmas.

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I know it. I'm not used to these ridiculous Decembers that we have been having. I used to look at December as a transition month in this area. However, it also used to snow in March...lol.

yep. probably doesn't ring as true for the interior folks but it was always a bonus to see something prior to NYE.

decembers have been pretty kind of late for the CP.

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I know it. I'm not used to these ridiculous Decembers that we have been having. I used to look at December as a transition month in this area. However, it also used to snow in March...lol.

I'm going to throw this in. When I was growing up, December WAS winter month with each year producing at least moderate and often heavy snows. Look up the late 1950s through the early 70s. We're in a similar pattern now.

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