I've got a feeling about this winter. There's a buzz to the air and I think we're going to see something we haven't experienced in several decades, especially south of the border. The analogs mentioned this Fall have compiled nothing short of a list of BANGERS, including 1988-89, 1972-73, and at the top of the list an underrated near-masterpiece of a winter in 2010-11. The latter of the three in particular stands out to me, since it was only a few adjustments in January away from being an all-timer, and it was also a -ENSO/+QBO year, coming off an El Niño, at the tail end of a +PDO phase. Not to mention its comparative recency. I think another go-around will fare very well for us.

Eurasian snowcover build-up is decent on the 00z EPS. Could help expedite the development of the Siberian high and seasonal decay of residual monsoonal forcing. No cold whatsoever on our side of the globe yet, though.

Haven't checked the EPS too often lately... but it still looks generally quiet in terms of active weather.

You forgot 2022, 2008, and 1988. And others I’m probably forgetting. There is no relationship. It cannot physically exist! The structure of tropical-extratropical teleconnections changes massively (even spatially inverts in some cases) from October to DJF. In October, *phase-8* MJO/RMM is statistically the coolest/wettest in the PNW. In January, it is the driest/ridgiest. Vice-versa for RMM phases 4/5. There is no spatial similarity to the extratropical responses to tropical forcing over the lower-48 between autumn and winter.

@Anti Marine Layer since you brought up BLM without acknowledging its popularity has faded away. Also not sure if you noticed but it's been years since we heard about NFL players kneeling. It was a passing fad.