Near the last time I visited this thread around 1 month ago I remember him saying he's thinking of staying off this thread or maybe this forum. So I'm guessing he's doing that because some of us weren't agreeing with his political views. He alluded to that in his last post in the Middle East Conflict thread as well.
The CONUS ridge is correct. The error is over the NE-Pacific.
OP GFS will likely diverge from GEFS mean hilariously w/rt the latter. Get the popcorn out.
EPS is pretty nice here too and shows a ridge covering most of the country like the 18Z GFS so I am not really surprised the GFS went in that direction.