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On 12/1/2023 at 4:11 PM, griteater said:

Good to see you in these threads Don.  Yeah, I saw that about the NOAA PV Blog.  I thought Judah Cohen's PV blog was a good one this week (https://www.aer.com/science-research/climate-weather/arctic-oscillation/).  He mentioned that Canadian Warmings are often followed by PV stretching and cold outbreaks (even though at the time, the models weren't showing the PV stretching)...but sure enough, the models have come around to that a bit in the strat, just not showing much AK ridging in the trop...but that could change in time (I think it will).

This is an Op run (GFS), but it shows the potential strat progression which could aid a cold outbreak

Dec-1-CW.gif

 

Interestingly, something similar occurred at the end of October. I'd look it up but ESRL is down at the moment. 

Obviously the implications are greater now than then...just thought it was interesting that it's a repeat. 

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6 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I must have missed this post...interesting take. I have initial reservations about next winter due to the fact that solar should be descending by then, but maybe we stave that off another year. Plenty of time to ponder that.

I'm thinking the winters of 25-26, 26-27, 27-28, 28-29 will be the most problematic for -NAO from a solar geomag standpoint.  Of course, the timing could change a little

 

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31 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Where did you pull these graphics from?

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-cycle-progression-and-forecast/

Problem is, I don't see anywhere on the web where they have these geomag plots going way back in time (they do have them for solar cycles - sunspots), but you can get geomag data (Ap) back to 1932 here: https://kp.gfz-potsdam.de/app/files/Kp_ap_Ap_SN_F107_since_1932.txt

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Looks like a flooded source region and low quality cold airmasses. Very typical/canonical +ENSO/+IOD. The kind of crap where you need extra help from timing even with favorable tracks. Would probably shift that forward a couple of weeks. Mid-Jan to late Feb? Would give time for the Pacific Jet to chill the fuck out or the GoA low to retrograde a bit and get some recharge up north.

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On 12/10/2023 at 7:57 PM, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

Natural gas down to $2.46. ya'll doubted me, but here comes the +EPO/+NAO pattern, at least for some time.. There are methods that do work better, but it's one thing to keep in mind as the correlation is very strong. 

If you are referring to the seasonal mean, then I still doubt you.

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I'm thinking we have a strong ongoing trend in February with a +150dm mean/average Aleutian high (-PNA) for the last 6 Winter's. It has exceeded the correlation for ENSO at 1.8/1. If I had to make a guess, it would be that January is cooler and February is warmer, although we have the chance of having a big -NAO/-AO in February, because of Strong El nino/Strong -QBO impact on the Stratosphere. I think if Feb is -PNA in this 7th year it will likely happen together with -NAO.. or, if the downwelling Stratosphere warming becomes a -NAO, the Pacific at +EPO/-PNA will correlate, because that's what's been happening lately.  Of course, the El Nino is +2.1c so that could rule the pattern, but we are not seeing this so far and Natural Gas is near record low when compared to Oil or Gas, usually a warm Winter, or +NAO, signal. 

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With December being the 3rd warmest population-weighted Dec on record, it got me once again testing the Natural Gas thesis.  This takes out a lot of borderline years, and just calculates the absolute highest and lowest since 1995: (map default is low NG price (vs high))

https://ibb.co/dfwzcWm

As you can see, the Pacific looks a lot like what we have seen, or will see, in Dec 2023. The biggest difference is the +NAO (-50dm) as the strongest global signal, somewhat conflicting a 10-day -NAO period in early Dec. A lot of people say that there is correlation to the early Dec -NAO and the rest of the Winter, but I think sustainability this year could be hard. With a big Stratosphere warming projected, that factor may definitely give us some -NAO, but I don't see a strong -NAO lasting through the Winter,  if anything it may average around neutral, going back and forth between negative and positive until March.  

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4 minutes ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

Historically, the Dec +EPO pattern carries to Jan-March. These are the top 30 analogs to December pattern:

December 30 analogs https://ibb.co/GT6sjyY

Roll-forward January https://ibb.co/RPFQyLC

Roll-forward February https://ibb.co/QnqH2wn

Roll-forward March https://ibb.co/QDv0GWG

If that proves correct then we are in real big trouble this winter. A +EPO is going to flood our source region with PAC air. You also said you are getting a signal for a largely +NAO…another real bad sign….not that a -NAO/-AO would help anyway in the face of a possible +EPO winter

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6 hours ago, snowman19 said:

If that proves correct then we are in real big trouble this winter. A +EPO is going to flood our source region with PAC air. You also said you are getting a signal for a largely +NAO…another real bad sign….not that a -NAO/-AO would help anyway in the face of a possible +EPO winter

He didn't say largely positive NAO....be said back and forth averaging around neutral, which I agree with.

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EPO can average +DM and still yield fine periods....going to wager that much of February its negative. Considering how decidedly positive it has been this month, averaging positive for DM will not be a tall task and doesn't mean that there will not be negative stretches from here on out.

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I post this here too:
 

I once again used that December will be a +2SD +EPO (dominate trough over Alaska) to roll forward to January, and again see that the very warm conditions usually continue. 

Dec Analogs: https://ibb.co/TTnjcDS

Dec Temp map: https://ibb.co/cxjrYFz

Jan roll forward 500mb pattern: https://ibb.co/rdsYCpF

Jan roll forward US Temp map: https://ibb.co/zbqBKKL

These roll forward means are giving us a baseline +2 to +4 Jan to work with. Not saying it will absolutely happen, but the signal is pretty strong.  It's an anomalous event, this +EPO Dec.

 

This too:

This is what top-30 December analogs (US) since 1948 looks like for January:

Dec map: https://ibb.co/GT6sjyY

Jan roll-forward https://ibb.co/RPFQyLC

 

Modeled Stratosphere warming is a variable that could make these bust, moreso late in the month January, as that supports more -NAO conditions. Something that has happened lately is, -NAO's have correlated with -PNA/+EPO and visa-versa, the correlation has been strong since 2019 (0.40>), since 2013 (>0.30)

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