Pattern recognition

The northern hemisphere view he posted earlier kind of helped connect the dots on how things might unfold.

GFS is still under active development and the CFSv2 has its place in climate oscillation forecasting, not determining mesoscale features in the Spokane Valley.

I could be wrong on this - but was true years back as far as upper air ballon data. Buy only 12Z and 00Z hold up to date data on current upper air soundings. At least the most current ones. I know during hurricanes and all - they throw everything up there for even support at 06/18Z,,, so (unless I'am wrong) be careful with 6 and 18Z runs if they don't have upper air soundings. You watch models and the concurrent weather enough over 27yr's, you do notice a difference at times. Now you have to watch very closely- and over time and many events- but 00Z / 12Z have much more "accuracy" than 18Z and 06Z past even 42-60 hours--- anything closer - go 3KM NAM --,, or experience in local forecasting.