Kind of windy in Rapid City, SD since 3 am.

Prior to solar radiation penetrating the atmosphere this morning, conditions allowed me to receive AM 1120 KMOX from St. Louis MO a distance of just over 600 miles from the rare 1930's Blaw-Knox "Diamond" antenna. About 600 miles North of me is prediction of a 24" Blizzard.

Night Shift 6z GEFS. Looking more closely at the individual members shows some potential as we approach the New Year with a decent cluster of cold/arctic members. This is reflected nicely looking at surface temps. You gotta start somewhere, right? Hmmm... Vancouver, BC Moses Lake

Everything is CO2's fault and Trumps. Anything that may cause 30 year "normals" to change MUST be man's fault. IT HAS TO BE. Anything that is brought up that might cause "normals" to change that has nothing to do with human beings must be hogwash. Sounds like real "systematic" science to me. Key part of "systematic" = Thorough: Covers all aspects completely, leaving nothing to chance. Heat capacity of H20 is 4.2 times greater than air. Yet large parts of the SAME PARTS of the oceans cool and warm faster in a very short time than the climate of San Diego does in years. Of course it's Co2. OF course it has to be ALL CO2 and nothing else because that's what were told. Open you minds to something else - along with CO2. News for you alarmists- it's not JUST Co2. But - I forgot- I'am a denier. Of course I can't be right. Because it's settled "science".

Even though the ridge doesn't get further east to that ~150-155 W sweet spot, and seems to unfortunately retreat back towards the Bering, the trough did dig some with the arctic air hovering over southern BC. This was a decent ensemble run. Still a ways to go. Day 8-16 GIF: 500mb Height Anomaly, 850mb Temps.