Near the last time I visited this thread around 1 month ago I remember him saying he's thinking of staying off this thread or maybe this forum. So I'm guessing he's doing that because some of us weren't agreeing with his political views. He alluded to that in his last post in the Middle East Conflict thread as well.
The CONUS ridge is correct. The error is over the NE-Pacific.
OP GFS will likely diverge from GEFS mean hilariously w/rt the latter. Get the popcorn out.