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Mid to late February Pattern Discussion...stormy or end of winter?


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Nothing's really changed in the overnight teleconnector spread...  The 2 weeks are still rife with potential, which understates.

 

The Euro op. -derived PNA is off the charts heading toward the 1st of March.  

 

Normally the PNA starts to lose some correlation heading into March, but it is too early for that assumption now - particularly with this much cross-guidance, enormous clustering of concerted agreement on a massive +PNA episode.   To do so would be unwise.   

 

Meanwhile, the NAO is negative.  

 

Currently as we've been humoring along ... there is a 100 hour thingy - it's really more just a massive field-response nadir to all that forcing on huge scales.  It still may come down to more of a series of rapid turning over events, that integrates a negative geopotential mean, more than a static feature.  Time will tell... 

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Yes. That one has been on the ensembles for a while now, though the evolution of it has varied a bit. But there's definite potential lurking there.

 

Yeah it's a needle-threader but not necessarily a bad setup.

 

I'm not holding out too much hope for Sunday at this point just because I hate the look of the Euro... so... next!

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When the last day of this GFS cycle comes around, March 10, the clocks will leap ahead one hour - fitting perhaps that the strong interval of +PNA/-NAO will be fading by then, whatever damage it did, if any, in the history books, and the extended at that time could very well be spring like.  Long days, warm times, seasonal change, most likely ... and likely, a zeitgeist containing elements of denial at that time.  

 

In the meantime, it seems the oper. runs of the GGEM/GFS/EURO are all trying to mute/dampen out specific events in lieu of just creating a giant negative geopotential node in the atmosphere that encompasses eastern N/A - the big counter-balancing mass field for the whopper +PNA/-NAO tandem signal that's been heavily discussed/advertised.   

 

Perhaps ... I suppose there is/was no guarantee that specific events would fall out of this interval of teleconnector spread, but it sure would be an epic waste of potential if nothing did.  It may just be that there is coincidental wave interferences everywhere ...serving to cancel this or that out from deconstructive wave interference ...etc etc... and you are left with a big dopey stupid wasteful cold wave.   Interesting. 

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You know what's interesting for me?

 

It just occurred to me, all this wanting and agonizing, wishing, hoping, analyzing, and egging on these weather events that is the preoccupation of the forums(s), the forum mentality is in the minority in society.   This is probably more at quite obvious when one disconnects their druthers from reality and looks at the big picture objectively.  But, it is still interesting, perhaps even necessary, to occasional put matters into perspective.  

 

The mode of society would prefer quiescent times, all the time, with gentle deliveries in the hydro cycle for farming and other uptakes, that are balanced by usage.  Sunny every day, rain only at night, but dry enough by every afternoon to never interfere with outdoor activities.   Utopia.  

 

:axe:

 

Can you imagine that abject horror?    But wait: shouldn't the needs of the many, far out-weigh the needs of few, or the one?   The utopia model certainly would suffice that logical precept.  So why is the dystopian landscape of deep snow, coastal damage, power outages, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, so eagerly sought for by the forum(s)?   It would appear the forum(s) must therefore be illogical in their pursuit of the dramatic.  

 

I do not think so, though.  It is  really a human instinct for discovery that is the origin of that inconsistency.  Just as the early tribal nomadic explorers "wondered" out of Africa, it really is the same venture to wonder what could possibly happen because of what x, y, z storm system.  It is really the same deeper, internal drive of wanting to learn about the nature of reality that is intrinsic in all people - some are perhaps merely more tuned into that internal drive.  The "drama" we experience, either as individuals or collectively as a group, is nothing more than sating that internal lust for discovery.  It is endemic to all of us, as humans.   

 

I like that.   

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You know what's interesting for me?

 

It just occurred to me, all this wanting and agonizing, wishing, hoping, analyzing, and egging on these weather events that is the preoccupation of the forums(s), the forum mentality is in the minority in society.   This is probably more at quite obvious when one disconnects their druthers from reality and looks at the big picture objectively.  But, it is still interesting, perhaps even necessary, to occasional put matters into perspective.  

 

The mode of society would prefer quiescent times, all the time, with gentle deliveries in the hydro cycle for farming and other uptakes, that are balanced by usage.  Sunny every day, rain only at night, but dry enough by every afternoon to never interfere with outdoor activities.   Utopia.  

 

:axe:

 

Can you imagine that abject horror?    But wait: shouldn't the needs of the many, far out-weigh the needs of few, or the one?   The utopia model certainly would suffice that logical precept.  So why is the dystopian landscape of deep snow, coastal damage, power outages, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, so eagerly sought for by the forum(s)?   It would appear the forum(s) must therefore be illogical in their pursuit of the dramatic.  

 

I do not think so, though.  It is  really a human instinct for discovery that is the origin of that inconsistency.  Just as the early tribal nomadic explorers "wondered" out of Africa, it really is the same venture to wonder what could possibly happen because of what x, y, z storm system.  It is really the same deeper, internal drive of wanting to learn about the nature of reality that is intrinsic in all people - some are perhaps merely more tuned into that internal drive.  The "drama" we experience, either as individuals or collectively as a group, is nothing more than sating that internal lust for discovery.  It is endemic to all of us, as humans.   

 

I like that.   

 

TL;DNR.

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Starting to resemble 1956. I am old enough to have seen and remember that one.

 

 

Which one...  

 

There were actually two important events between the 15th and 20th of that month in '56.     The late 16th through the 17th translated a deep bomb, down to 970mb, about 50 mi s of ACK.  Then there was a lull.  A day and half later... 18th -20th, a moderately intense cut-off meandered, a 998-1004mb type coastal low crawled NE across 2 and half days.   

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