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January 2014 pattern discussion


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  On 1/9/2014 at 4:46 PM, CoastalWx said:

Thank God it's the GFS op, but it completely bails on winter and brings on Spring...lol. Very LOL-tastic.

 

 

That would be an absolutely epic furnace for the the last week fo January...just non-stop 50s and 60s. Amazing how different the OP GFS has been vs Euro ensembles...that's like the 3rd or 4th OP GFS run that has done that.

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  On 1/9/2014 at 4:46 PM, CoastalWx said:

Thank God it's the GFS op, but it completely bails on winter and brings on Spring...lol. Very LOL-tastic.

It'll be interesting to see if Joe Bastardi and Joe D'Aleo are right about the return of the polar vortex and frigid cold to the east. The GFS doesn't seem to support them, although it didn't a 10 days before the recent cold surge either.

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  On 1/9/2014 at 4:41 PM, ruNNaWayIcEberG said:

Why is that map not a good look? Ridging out west....cooler east. What is it lacking?

 

 

Because the ridge is somewhat flat...it is able to progress eastward and we'd be warmer a few days beyond that composite.

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  On 1/9/2014 at 4:58 PM, Ottawa Blizzard said:

It'll be interesting to see if Joe Bastardi and Joe D'Aleo are right about the return of the polar vortex and frigid cold to the east. The GFS doesn't seem to support them, although it didn't a 10 days before the recent cold surge either.

 

Well the GFS op loves to just shove ridges east and be way too progressive, but like Will said..it's done that for several runs now. That is certainly the bad side of things for winter wx fans, but that is to the extreme. Somehow my guess is the ensembles are not as warm. The GFS op actually started out colder than 00z too...it just because a furnace after day11.

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  On 1/9/2014 at 5:11 PM, eduggs said:

It's too bad the operational models are run past 240hrs.  Humongous forecast error towards the end of the runs.  Computing power might be better spent elsewhere.  And people wouldn't waste time looking at it.

 

Well, it's not completely unusable, but the solutions can be a little ridiculous. For instance they did get the magnitude of the cold spells down despite a warmer looking ensemble mean.

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  On 1/9/2014 at 5:40 PM, PolarVortex said:

GEFS look fine.  Our location far NE may save the day. 

 

Amplitude may be a problem, could see a late bloomer pattern like Coastalwx talks about in his detailed 30 day forecast.

To paraphrase LA Confidential..."they're pretty fukkin far from fine"

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  On 1/9/2014 at 5:51 PM, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yea...hence "spring training".

 

I didn't say beach weather lol

 

I can't get into baseball until April..lol. I thought you were joking about the wx. I can go out and lime my grass if the GFS suite is right.  They come back around near the end, but yikes.

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  On 1/9/2014 at 5:47 PM, weathafella said:

To paraphrase LA Confidential..."they're pretty fukkin far from fine"

 

They're fine IMO.  Beginning to think though the needle will tilt towards more mild days as a percentage than this last pattern.  IE, we will see an eventual compromise as the GEFS begins to cave towards cold but we're going to walk the fence much more in SNE.

 

Leon may have fumbled and instead of trying to recover the ball rolled over and took a nap for a few weeks.

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