Maybe now I should pull the “I am just talking about the weather . Like everyone will do here . It is normal . This emoji is representative of my actual mood right now . I also can not use contractions . Or put any two sentences less than five spaces apart .” card at this point. Seems to be pretty effective at fooling most of you.
Last year was decent here, but I don't remember much thunder from 2021 and 2022. This year we had a decent one that caused a bit of quick flash flooding in January.
Operational ECMWF and EPS control run are substantially different over the NE-Pacific D8/9. Always a red flag for me w/rt internal consistency of the EPS suite.