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December 2024 - Best look to an early December pattern in many a year!


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1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

I was wrong about early December. I think we knew there was progged relaxation at some point mid month. 
 

I’m just sick and tired of seeing the same stable look approaching the holidays. Perhaps it improves before that, but I’ll get jack dick from this pattern. Can we ever get a fucking break?

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1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

I don’t mean to bring anyone down. I hope I’m violently wrong like I was early December. I’m just frustrated and disgusted.

You’re not bringing anyone down at all. If it looks lousy, it looks lousy.  We all feel you, and share/understand the disappointment.  
 

Will made some interesting and important points about this being different than last/previous December’s, so that could play in down the line to improving the look after we relax.   The cold we have now is legit, and wasn’t progged a few weeks ago, so those ugly depictions out at 384 could be overblown too?  Let’s hope everyone can grab some snow Wednesday/Wednesday night.  

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7 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

You’re not bringing anyone down at all. If it looks lousy, it looks lousy.  We all feel you, and share/understand the disappointment.  
 

Will made some interesting and important points about this being different than last/previous December’s, so that could play in down the line to improving the look after we relax.   The cold we have now is legit, and wasn’t progged a few weeks ago, so those ugly depictions out at 384 could be overblown too?  Let’s hope everyone can grab some snow Wednesday/Wednesday night.  

We accept your apology. 
 

Hopefully late month we can score something and make the holidays festive.  I have my doubts
though because when that West Coast trough starts digging into Baja that sucker is persistent.

 

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1 minute ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

We accept your apology. 
 

Hopefully late month we can score something and make the holidays festive.  I have my doubts
though because when that West Coast trough starts digging into Baja that sucker is persistent.

 

Luke, I have absolutely nothing to apologize for. And that was not any type of apology. The cold is here, it has happened. I never said it was going to be an epic snow outbreak.  I was hoping we could grab something(we may still come Wednesday). I only said let’s see how things play out. I believe that is still in play. 

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1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Big difference I see from 2022 is the WPO, which is remaining fairly negative as anticipated. Even with that mild pattern, we still have higher heights in the Bering Sea. This is why the season shouldn't be as bad as that year.

I canceled winter by Christmas that year lol, so hopefully you’re right. 

Low of 17.8°. Not bad at all. 

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I really wish I had the time, or was fully involved with long-range and/or seasonal forecasting. It's so intriguing but at the same time incredibly frustrating. Just looking at ensembles and weeklies I feel like is a tiny fraction of what goes into such forecasting. This likely requires having immense knowledge of daily regimes across the globe, how the patterns across the globe are changing daily, and the background states and what the main drivers are. 

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6 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I really wish I had the time, or was fully involved with long-range and/or seasonal forecasting. It's so intriguing but at the same time incredibly frustrating. Just looking at ensembles and weeklies I feel like is a tiny fraction of what goes into such forecasting. This likely requires having immense knowledge of daily regimes across the globe, how the patterns across the globe are changing daily, and the background states and what the main drivers are. 

I feel the same way, would be awesome to have my finger on the pulse. I’d imagine you’d have to have about 17 data sites saved in a folder that gets checked daily, along with probably a weekly long-term blogging practice. Otherwise, important signals get lost and the whole enterprise isn’t even worth it

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3 minutes ago, Henry's Weather said:

I feel the same way, would be awesome to have my finger on the pulse. I’d imagine you’d have to have about 17 data sites saved in a folder that gets checked daily, along with probably a weekly long-term blogging practice. Otherwise, important signals get lost and the whole enterprise isn’t even worth it

Yeah I'd imagine one must have a ton of different links and data sources saved that you're constantly checking daily. But ultimately, just assessing model guidance without accounting for the current state and understanding what is driving things...you're going to have an awfully difficult time in the accuracy department. 

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Just now, weatherwiz said:

Yeah I'd imagine one must have a ton of different links and data sources saved that you're constantly checking daily. But ultimately, just assessing model guidance without accounting for the current state and understanding what is driving things...you're going to have an awfully difficult time in the accuracy department. 

Right. Instead, we just sit here, look at 360 hr charts, and go like “aw shucks, hopefully it’s wrong” because we (or maybe just me personally) can’t put our finger on the driving causes

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14 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Yeah I'd imagine one must have a ton of different links and data sources saved that you're constantly checking daily. But ultimately, just assessing model guidance without accounting for the current state and understanding what is driving things...you're going to have an awfully difficult time in the accuracy department. 

Exactly!!!!!!

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3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

I was wrong about early December. I think we knew there was progged relaxation at some point mid month. 
 

I’m just sick and tired of seeing the same stable look approaching the holidays. Perhaps it improves before that, but I’ll get jack dick from this pattern. Can we ever get a fucking break?

yeah, Murphy's Law still has quite the grip on us. what can you do? in the mid-2010s we probably would have gotten a SECS out of this pattern

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1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

We accept your apology. 
 

Hopefully late month we can score something and make the holidays festive.  I have my doubts
though because when that West Coast trough starts digging into Baja that sucker is persistent.

 

Ok... Now you are being sarcastic 

There are two camps here, pessimistic and optimistic. I think that's what the friction has been all about. 

There's no one person who's right or wrong. When the models show one thing, the optimistic side of people will either say this could change or hey, this is looking great. The pessimistic people would say, I told you so, or it's going to change back to something that we don't like. That's the difference we have here. 

With all that said, I think everyone is on the same page. I think we all want to see a better setup this winter than we did the last few. Our chances are good to have a better setup in general. And even for this month, with things going back to a milder pattern ( in the most recent runs ) but it doesn't mean we can't see snow, it just makes it a bit harder. 

Lastly, as with any weather pattern, things could abruptly switch back to a colder pattern again but whatever happens happens. There's just some of us who like to take that dagger and dig it and twist in as it seems to give them some sort of twisted satisfaction.

As with life, let's just move forward. We're just one step closer to having something Great!

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