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November 2011 Obs/Forecasting Discussion


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A late start to winter around here is January 1.

well, I was just commenting that late starts around here are not necessarily bad

late start to me is around Christmas, but what's a week

not that it was that great snow-wise around here, 93/94 didn't get cold until Christmas night

although 78/79 has 3" of snow Thanksgiving week, winter (snow) was missing in action until mid-late JAN

I do believe this year we'll have a pattern change to winter by the first week of DEC and it should be below normal temp-wise in DEC; snow, dunno'

personally, a pattern change late NOV/early DEC is good timing for us (winter will remember DEC)

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Would it be possible to have separate threads for current obs/forecasting and the long/medium-term winter discussions? This thread has taken on a schizophrenic nature, as it keeps switching between the two.

i think there is a winter thread.. the weenies cant control themselves

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Well, the good news about the 12z GFS is the pattern is pretty fluid and we never really warm up significantly. Bad news is the NAO stays near neutral, PNA stays negative to occasionally neutral, SE ridge hangs around (although is definitely not dominant), and no clear sign of a big pattern change.

Ensembles seem to be saying "more of the same" with a strongly -PNA, moderate -NAO, and moderate SE ridge for pretty much the entire run.

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Well, the good news about the 12z GFS is the pattern is pretty fluid and we never really warm up significantly. Bad news is the NAO stays near neutral, PNA stays negative to occasionally neutral, SE ridge hangs around (although is definitely not dominant), and no clear sign of a big pattern change.

Ensembles seem to be saying "more of the same" with a strongly -PNA, moderate -NAO, and moderate SE ridge for pretty much the entire run.

someone in the NE thread said JB pulled out maps today and was discussing 01/02

how can he expect to maintain his credibility mentioning that year after forecasting a cold winter, with a warm up in FEB?

I think he's hugging the CFS for some unknown reason

it's simply too early to worry about

OCT snows are evil, they will fook up your mind

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Yea, this is the big final drop day for most trees.

Totally cool leaftadoes spinning on my street with some of the big gusts. One more day in the yard in the next week or so and that's all she wrote till April.

I still have 3 maples hanging on to about half even after today's winds. Still plenty of raking to do, tho.

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I tell you what ... after reviewing the D8 and 9... It wouldn't take a whole heck of a lot of fiddling with that larger scale synopsis and there'd be a hell to pay cold invasion for just about everyone N of an MV-MA line...

That's the strongest yet -EPO signature, and then factoring in the old ECMWF "dig the trough too far SW" bias (does that still apply??), and viola... The dailies get smart and a lot of people end up surprised.

We'll see.

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LMAO, at TIP. this is one of the worst looking patterns possibe. All we need if for the troff to come 3,000 miles east.

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