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Honestly if it is really means normal status quo for us I am not sure why you are posting it here??? Not sure what your point is???

What the heck are you talking about? There's nothing "status quo" about what is now ongoing.

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Anomalous ridges are not necessarily true "blocks", or complete anticyclonic breaks independent of antecedent flow.

 

That NPAC ridge, by itself, would have done nothing for the PNW. The reason upstream blocking was able to sustain, as it did, was thanks to downstream feedback.

 

I hope that clears things up somewhat.

 

Not going to argue this with you, but this seems like semantics to me. If that's not NPAC blocking, I don't know what is. 

 

And regardless of the NAO, that's the kind of blocking that usually delivers cold air to the PNW.

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What the heck are you talking about? There's nothing "status quo" about what is now ongoing.

Status Quo for us means no snow. His point is unless the graphics indicate something different for us why did you post it. Most of us have no idea what the graphic means.

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What the heck are you talking about? There's nothing "status quo" about what is now ongoing.

 

Honestly if it is really means normal status quo for us I am not sure why you are posting it here???  Not sure what your point is???

Status Quo for us means no snow. His point is unless the graphics indicate something different for us why did you post it. Most of us have no idea what the graphic means.

 

 

 

I found it interesting.  It's been a long time since we've had GLAAM graphics posted here with sensational text affixed to it.  

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What the heck are you talking about? There's nothing "status quo" about what is now ongoing.

Let me clarify a wee bit more... You post some graphic that most us have no clue what it is for or how to read... then post some OMG statement with no explanation what your are OMG'ing about, for or where it will impact. If it is not something that impacts our area then why in the OMF'ingG  are you posting it here?   If there is a correlation to our area then an explanation is needed.. Please! :)... OMG!  

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Not going to argue this with you, but this seems like semantics to me. If that's not NPAC blocking, I don't know what is.

 

And regardless of the NAO, that's the kind of blocking that usually delivers cold air to the PNW.

Yes, what occurred was "blocking", but without the aforementioned downstream/NATL feedback, that block would not have occurred in the manner it did, and the end result would probably have been some sort of +PNA look.

 

Does that make sense?

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This sums up the coming pattern. Off the charts (literally) Arctic blocking, but Pacific pattern means it's no good for the West. -AO is overrated.

This is hogwash. The NAM/NPAC are coupled, in this case (and in most cases).

 

Remember the bouts of NPAC blocking back in November/December, that ultimately failed to deliver? Yeah, you can thank the +PV/+NAM for that failure.

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Let me clarify a wee bit more... You post some graphic that most us have no clue what it is for or how to read... then post some OMG statement with no explanation what your are OMG'ing about, for or where it will impact. If it is not something that impacts our area then why in the OMF'ingG are you posting it here? If there is a correlation to our area then an explanation is needed.. Please! :)... OMG!

I explained it all a page or two back. What exactly do you want me to elaborate on?

 

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This is hogwash. The NAM/NPAC are coupled, in this case (and in most cases).

 

Remember the bouts of NPAC blocking back in November/December, that ultimately failed to deliver? Yeah, you can thank the +PV/+NAM for that failure.

Nov/Dec featured weak/neutral -EPO, with neutral to occasionally moderate -PNA. It wasn't a great NPAC blocking pattern by any means.

 

All I can say is that I've closely followed the patterns that deliver to the PNW/West over the past 20+ years, and the AO/NAO simply don't have a strong correlation to cold here. Much stronger correlation to EPO/PNA...which often do function independently of the Atlantic-side blocking.

 

In general, we all want a blocky/slow NH pattern. That's what's most likely to deliver cold to the mid latitudes. And some of the best patterns have featured blocking across the indices AO/NAO/EPO. But a -EPO block is the one most important for the West (hard to get real cold here without upstream blocking).

 

-AO means somewhere in the NH is getting cold, but not necessarily our part of the country. Current pattern: Exhibit A.

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Nov/Dec featured weak/neutral -EPO, with neutral to occasionally moderate -PNA. It wasn't a great NPAC blocking pattern by any means.

The GOA block during late November was actually 4mb stronger at its peak than the January 1969 block at its peak.

 

All I can say is that I've closely followed the patterns that deliver to the PNW/West over the past 20+ years, and the AO/NAO simply don't have a strong correlation to cold here. Much stronger correlation to EPO/PNA...which often do function independently of the Atlantic-side blocking.

That's true at face value, but you're ignoring the bigger picture in favor of isolating a single domain in an interconnected system.

 

The NPAC and NAM are a single interactive entity. Whether or not the NAM works with/against the PNW in any given pattern is highly dependent on a slew of forcings and stochastic resonances that render the usage of the NAM sign alone useless.

 

There are cases where a +NAM is beneficial/preferred in the PNW, and there are cases where a -NAM is beneficial/preferred.

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This Nino tied with the 97'-98' Nino per NWS spokesperson I just seen on KREM2 news here in Spoke...

Crap, now they will be going into extra innings! As an analog January 98 had a mini blast with a few teens here and December 98 wasn't bad at all. I had 10" of snow the week before Christmas and a few single digit lows. The rest of the winter sucked though.
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7:05 PM Water Vapor Analysis
12 hour Loop - http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?wv_enhanced+25
I see some potential interesting developments on Water Vapor. Arctic air is trying to push back against the unusual southerly flow up into British Columbia/Alberta that has been in place the past several days. Analyzing a 12 hour loop the southern push of arctic air and drier, colder northerly flow is holding back the southerly flow and even suppressing it southward now approaching central BC/AB. Arctic air is very dense, heavy, and sometimes can shove the warmer air mass southward quite efficiently especially since it is waning now. This might be something to keep an eye on with the deeply suppressed jet.

http://i.imgur.com/hFPG6ff.png

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7:05 PM Water Vapor Analysis

12 hour Loop - http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?wv_enhanced+25

I see some potential interesting developments on Water Vapor. Arctic air is trying to push back against the unusual southerly flow up into British Columbia/Alberta that has been in place the past several days. Analyzing a 12 hour loop the southern push of arctic air and drier, colder northerly flow is holding back the southerly flow and even suppressing it southward now approaching central BC/AB. Arctic air is very dense, heavy, and sometimes can shove the warmer air mass southward quite efficiently especially since it is waning now. This might be something to keep an eye on with the deeply suppressed jet.

http://i.imgur.com/hFPG6ff.png

Sure would be nice if we had some powerful computers to run statistical scenarios as to how air masses will evolve. That would definitely be a game changer!

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Sure would be nice if we had some powerful computers to run statistical scenarios as to how air masses will evolve. That would definitely be a game changer!

To be clear this isn't me forecasting an arctic blast or expecting it to be colder than modeled. I am merely doing real-time analysis which often times proves to be very useful and sometimes does show new developments that models do not latch onto. Anything is possible.

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To be clear this isn't me forecasting an arctic blast or expecting it to be colder than modeled. I am merely doing real-time analysis which often times proves to be very useful and sometimes does show new developments that models do not latch onto. Anything is possible.

Expect the unexpected!

 

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7:05 PM Water Vapor Analysis

12 hour Loop - http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?wv_enhanced+25

I see some potential interesting developments on Water Vapor. Arctic air is trying to push back against the unusual southerly flow up into British Columbia/Alberta that has been in place the past several days. Analyzing a 12 hour loop the southern push of arctic air and drier, colder northerly flow is holding back the southerly flow and even suppressing it southward now approaching central BC/AB. Arctic air is very dense, heavy, and sometimes can shove the warmer air mass southward quite efficiently especially since it is waning now. This might be something to keep an eye on with the deeply suppressed jet.

http://i.imgur.com/hFPG6ff.png

Nah, if you look at the loop it definitely looks like arctic air pushing more ESE than S.  Looks progged to move east to me.

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Nah, if you look at the loop it definitely looks like arctic air pushing more ESE than S.  Looks progged to move east to me.

Oh yeah, the major brunt of it will be east of the Rockies into the northern plains. Grasping at straws for a nice cold shot into eastern Washington or at least a decent cold pool.

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Oh yeah, the major brunt of it will be east of the Rockies into the northern plains. Grasping at straws for a nice cold shot into eastern Washington or at least a decent cold pool.

Run a nice hot bath, wait 12 hours, then get in.

 

Cold pool.

 

I didn't even need the GFS or the GLAAM to figure that out.

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Crap, now they will be going into extra innings! As an analog January 98 had a mini blast with a few teens here and December 98 wasn't bad at all. I had 10" of snow the week before Christmas and a few single digit lows. The rest of the winter sucked though.

Already seeing signs in the models of the Aleutian Ridge setting up for December 2016.  :D

 

http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/cansips/2016010100/cansips_z500a_namer_11.png

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