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November Obs/Banter thread


Mr Torchey

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Yeah Phil...looks like we are all locked in for sub zero wind chills and 12" of snow. Just brutal, brutal cold.

i think we are looking at the last week of the month at the earliest. there aren't any really strong signals for a big shift right now...so add that to the fact that guidance is notoriously too fast in actually establishing a new pattern...i don't see anything other than short-lived cool shots for now.

maybe we start to beat back the very large + departures a bit with closer to normal type days, but below normal seems like it's quite a ways off right now.

i don't have the ec ens past day 10 but given what they look like at day 10 - i wouldn't look for cold into our area until thanksgiving week *at least*.

we've got a decent -nao progged to develop and it can't do crap to compete against the strength of that -pna arrangement right now...too early. i guess could see where down the road a ways just the mass of that frigid air overwhelms the pattern a bit and is able to bleed down and flatten things a bit.

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i think we are looking at the last week of the month at the earliest. there aren't any really strong signals for a big shift right now...so add that to the fact that guidance is notoriously too fast in actually establishing a new pattern...i don't see anything other than short-lived cool shots for now.

maybe we start to beat back the very large + departures a bit with closer to normal type days, but below normal seems like it's quite a ways off right now.

i don't have the ec ens past day 10 but given what they look like at day 10 - i wouldn't look for cold into our area until thanksgiving week *at least*.

we've got a decent -nao progged to develop and it can't do crap to compete against the strength of that -pna arrangement right now...too early. i guess could see where down the road a ways just the mass of that frigid air overwhelms the pattern a bit and is able to bleed down and flatten things a bit.

The blocking has been slowly trending a little weaker on the models...not sure this AK beast of a storm has anything to do with it??

Anyways I agree...anything long lasting probably won't come until after T-Day. We still have that massive west coast trough which is helping to keep the cold locked into western Canada. This is a good thing since we need the source region snow covered anyways. Usually down the road, the dam eventually breaks and a winter-like pattern can ensue. FWIW it looks very PDO-ish and not so La Nina-ish for November. I correlated it to the MEI and PDO

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The blocking has been slowly trending a little weaker on the models...not sure this AK beast of a storm has anything to do with it??

Anyways I agree...anything long lasting probably won't come until after T-Day. We still have that massive west coast trough which is helping to keep the cold locked into western Canada. This is a good thing since we need the source region snow covered anyways. Usually down the road, the dam eventually breaks and a winter-like pattern can ensue. FWIW it looks very PDO-ish and not so La Nina-ish for November. I correlated it to the MEI and PDO

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yeah one of the posters in the main thread was suggesting the same, iirc

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:snowwindow:

LOL.

bring it on. i'm ready for snow season. i hope things change around but by the same token, i'm fine with things the way they are right now. i'd rather have that frigid air building in canada and poised to make things fun in december as opposed to having all the cP air diving down into the US right now and modifying into 30s/40s/50s.

when that cold finally lets go from western and central canada in a couple of weeks it should make for a good run.

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In Canada?? Cool.

its hideously warm outside for this time of year.

on MTL sportradio, they give the forecast every 30 mins

the AM sports guys started whooping it up when they heard the forecast that it was going to cool down for a couple days, and then warm back up again!.....it was kinda funny the way they were celebrating, they started playing clips and celebrating like they won the SB or something LOL

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The blocking has been slowly trending a little weaker on the models...not sure this AK beast of a storm has anything to do with it??

Anyways I agree...anything long lasting probably won't come until after T-Day. We still have that massive west coast trough which is helping to keep the cold locked into western Canada. This is a good thing since we need the source region snow covered anyways. Usually down the road, the dam eventually breaks and a winter-like pattern can ensue. FWIW it looks very PDO-ish and not so La Nina-ish for November. I correlated it to the MEI and PDO

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What do you mean? Those two charts look pretty similar to me. The pattern the first half of this month looks like a classic Nina and/or -PDO november. You've also got a finer scale on the PDO chart which makes the correlation appear stronger.

I pointed out a few days ago that a transition to colder late November would make sense as the cold air has a tendency to bleed farther east from western Canada in December than November (perhaps as the wavelengths get longer).

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What do you mean? Those two charts look pretty similar to me. The pattern the first half of this month looks like a classic Nina and/or -PDO november. You've also got a finer scale on the PDO chart which makes the correlation appear stronger.

I pointed out a few days ago that a transition to colder late November would make sense as the cold air has a tendency to bleed farther east from western Canada in December than November (perhaps as the wavelengths get longer).

I mean it looks like how typical November -PDO pattern with a big trough in western Canada. That's all I meant.

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