ICON Day 4 500mb Height Anomaly (2-run trend)

Hopefully we can get solid snowcover there like in 2016/2017. That year had a lot of offshore flow snow events it seemed like, Dec 8th, 14th, Jan 7th/8th and of course Jan 10th/11th.

We've seen this so many times before. The models look atrociously bad and it seems all hope is lost. We are lulled to sleep nearly, almost comatose, and THEN.... This really reminds me so much of 2008, except for that year we were in a weak Nina with ONI readings of OND: -0.55, NDJ -0.73. Night Shift 6z GFS in 18 minutes

I'll happily take that, solid improvement in the semi realistic range. Get the cold in the basin and worry about the other details later.