In theory the giant cyclonic wave break over the north-central Pacific over the next week should be a good thing for us. But it looks like another round of energy leftover from the hyperactive MJO is going to pound its way under the block. Still seems like the perpetual “wait two weeks” which is annoying but the reality. One silver lining is that the GFS is probably full of it with that mega west coast ridge next week, but the alternative is more active weather. At least it won’t be 7000 ft snow levels next week.

00z ECMWF - Day 8

uh oh Alaska - If +EPO builds in the whole CONUS is going to blowtorch. Let's see if that happens though, it kind of breaks the yearly trend since the late Summer.

This is about as bad as it gets.... This is even worse than split flow at ~140 W.

00z ECMWF - Day 7 (4-run trend)