Yeah getting snow cover there and establishing low level cold there can really help us get something done even when the upper level pattern is mediocre. I kind of find it fun to score some snow with mostly homegrown cold.

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