Won't be long before these start blooming! Winter is almost over!

Yesterday winter was on. Today winter is cancelled. one thing that’s certain though, is Phishy will piss and moan almost as much as tiger. Consistency is important.

Yet it still got very cold!

For both me and thee, it already has a little, at least if "winter" is redefined as "cold season."

Definitely not perfect, but I think pretty visibly better than the OP GFS which has only just now caught on these past few runs. This feels like a winter where it's kind of an all-or-nothing proposition for getting blocking to develop and North Pacific heights to rise. The underlying tendency is now established and it is definitely progressive. So if there's anything even slightly hinting otherwise, then it's not going to happen. Models were all more or less in agreement in early December when blocking did (briefly) get going a tiny bit.