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Today's Euro weeklies are like night and day vs. those from just three days ago. Today's 10/1-7 and 10/8-14 are so different that it is mind-boggling! Today's basically have a strong -EPO for the first half of Oct. Come mid-Oct., the SST anom. maps in the N Pacific could very well show a sig. PDO rise from the already higher levels vs. last month if this verifies. The chance of getting a +PDO for DJF would only continue to increase if the -EPO pattern were to persist. Talk of an almost certain -PDO for DJF is very premature imo.

Hey Larry, keep posting in the ne subforum....your thoughts are much appreciated.

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Weeks 1&2 have the -EPO right? Also week 3 is the ridge still over Western Canada?

Week 3 had weak ridging over central canada and nrn US. Lower heights GOA down into CA. It still had remnant troughing over far eastern US. I really wouldn't read into week 3 and week 4 too much. Doesn't look like much more than some Fall shuffling.

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In CT? Probably cloudy with maybe a sct shwr or two. It's not impossible ct valley sees a couple of

breaks.

SWEET!

Will be tailgating at the UCONN game...heading out at 7:00 AM. I don't mind the clouds...just don't want heat or heavy rain. A few years ago it was in the mid-80's...couldn't drink more than 7 beers...got way too dehydrated.

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Nevermind...the Daily Climate Report is out...they made it to 65 today...which is what I forecasted :tomato:

Bombed on the minimum though :thumbsdown:

I'm doing the same contest wiz (matt1979). BGM has been tough to forecast for...tomorrow's QPF verification should be interesting.

Not to spam, but for anyone else interested...a friend of mine is trying to build a forecasting contest / social media site for meteorologists. the more the merrier! Would nice to see a few more americanwx folks participate. http://www.nationalforecaster.com

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I'm doing the same contest wiz (matt1979). BGM has been tough to forecast for...tomorrow's QPF verification should be interesting.

Not to spam, but for anyone else interested...a friend of mine is trying to build a forecasting contest / social media site for meteorologists. the more the merrier! Would nice to see a few more americanwx folks participate. http://www.nationalforecaster.com

Yeah it's been quite tricky. Yesterday was a really tough forecast with the high temps. Cloud cover just really held temps back. MOS was way too high...even the GFS MAV/MEX was too high and so far for this week GFS MAV/MEX has been much more realistic as compared to the NAM MOS.

I was shocked they got down to 48F last night...I thought the cloud cover would really help to keep temps up a bit but just around dawn the temps bottomed out quite a bit.

I've really enjoyed doing this so far and would certainly recommend this to anyone. Figure this is a great way to start testing techniques on forecasting and such as well as closely paying attention to MOS data and gauging which model output does the best in certain situations.

The precip forecast tomorrow is a tough one. I sort of went in the middle of the 18z GFS/NAM precip forecast.

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Yeah it's been quite tricky. Yesterday was a really tough forecast with the high temps. Cloud cover just really held temps back. MOS was way too high...even the GFS MAV/MEX was too high and so far for this week GFS MAV/MEX has been much more realistic as compared to the NAM MOS.

I was shocked they got down to 48F last night...I thought the cloud cover would really help to keep temps up a bit but just around dawn the temps bottomed out quite a bit.

I've really enjoyed doing this so far and would certainly recommend this to anyone. Figure this is a great way to start testing techniques on forecasting and such as well as closely paying attention to MOS data and gauging which model output does the best in certain situations.

The precip forecast tomorrow is a tough one. I sort of went in the middle of the 18z GFS/NAM precip forecast.

Last nights temp was a surprise. The only reason I didn't totally bust is I went against my gut which usually means fail for me. But I was way too warm with my forecasts the first two days so I shaved a couple degrees off what I really was thinking. Worked well for the low...but ended up being too cool for the high.

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Last nights temp was a surprise. The only reason I didn't totally bust is I went against my gut which usually means fail for me. But I was way too warm with my forecasts the first two days so I shaved a couple degrees off what I really was thinking. Worked well for the low...but ended up being too cool for the high.

Besides the precip forecast tomorrow the high temperature could be interesting. Will also have to see how much they drop off tonight. Seems like the NAM has had a better handle on dewpoints so far, however, there are some juicer dewpoints not too far to the south. Hoping the temp can fall back several more degrees before the dewpoints start to creep up a bit.

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Looks like there could be quite the contrast between the much warmer and much cooler weather towards the end of next week. Just below the boundary may see 70's while just north of it 50's/60's.

Also, it will be interesting to see where that main vort tracks with the cold front towards the end of next week...should be quite the dynamic system, especially if we see a phase occur. Just ahead of the cold front the GFS has a pretty impressive warm sector too with mid 60's dews up the coast. Maybe one last convective shot before we go cooler than average!

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