On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 04:03:49 -0800 (PST)
David Mitchell wrote:

The 06z maintains the zonal theme and my confidence that this zonal
weather will persist to the last few days of January is rising.

That is an absolutely staggering observation.

Excuse me for butting into your friendly little conversation but I'd
like to point out that zonality is also favoured by the SST pattern
in the western N Atlantic, as it has been for most of the winter. This
doesn't guarantee that the atmosphere will continue with a zonal
pattern but it does tilt the odds in favour of that happening. It may
also explain why the models' forecasts of blocking patterns developing
have so far come to naught.


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