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December Discussion II


Typhoon Tip

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That looks neutral to me ... perhaps agreeing with the CPC numbers from last night.  But then ... East-based may ultimately mean 'neutral' in hard numbers, because there is no distinction in the total NAO integration for west or east character. 

For reference, the CDC NAO calculates the index using this virtual box:      [(35-45N, 70W-10W) - (55-70N, 70W-10W)]

That's available right on their web-source.   The CPC ...I'm not sure where to find their exact lat/lon coverage without deeper tedious research using an ever increasingly greed/profit smeared Internet ...making the virtue of the web ever disintegrating and an egregious and annoying venture... Thus, I don't care enough to deal with that frustration so -

But, should the CDC and CPC have variation in their spatial domain (I actually kind of doubt they do, but one never knows...) that "might" account for discrepancies.  Here's last night's from CPC, indicating dip (maybe) way out there D10-ish... Not very confidence inspiring, otherwise, the neutral appeal:

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2 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Mm maybe...  It was, as of yesterday, drawing up a two week long negative curve, plumbing to some -2.5 SD mid way at the CDC only.  The CPC did not indicate that same variance showing most members and the mean of all members, combined, nearly neutral right out to the end ..some two week's worth.

Both can be valid projectors for the NAO.   So which one does one choose?   ...Naturally, the one that indicates the deeper curve :) right? heh  

Seriously though, there's that, ...and, it was relatively new as a signal to begin with - the new numbers tend to publish the morning after the nightly computations, which is any moment ..so we'll see if CDC's numbers might have been the beginning of something. I tend to think not though? 

At least ...preliminarily ... because, the CDC is not benefiting from 'continuity and confidence' ... Continuity in this context means a consistent trend ... without it, the bad weather forecaster allows themselves to being led on by the peregrinations of fractals...  ( tongue-in-cheek for excursions imposed in/of/by chaos ).   I mean... we're moving along in over a week of neutral butt-bone NAO; we can either light the torches for the opening winter games ceremonies, or... look at it intelligently and stay the course until a more substantive reason to alter. 

But I'm lecturing and ranting over morning coffee... point being, I wouldn't trust that - for now.  But again, we'll see if the CPC curves at least dent for f sake... 

I appreciate both lectures and coffee. Thanks Tip (and Baroclinic Zone for the earlier response).

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I dont know if you guys noticed, but pivotalweather now has soundings available for anywhere in north america for the rdps, nam, gfs, fv3 gfs, and GDPS. Pretty cool. GDPS and RDPS soundings have notoriously been hard to come by. 

http://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=rdps&p=sfcwind_mslp&rh=2018122000&fh=12&r=ca_e&dpdt=&mc=

 

 

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