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The PDO, MJO and Their Potential Influence In This Upcoming El Nino Winter

When a forecaster makes a seasonal outlook or forecast, he/she must consider all possible climate drivers and variables with teleconnections. Previous articles such as Monitoring the Stratosphere and The Importance of High Latitude Blocking in Upcoming Winter discussed the variables that were considered for our winter forecast, and how much weight was put into each. Now it’s time […]

The Importance of High Latitude Blocking in The Upcoming Winter

In our winter forecast, we discussed certain signals that supported high-latitude blocking developing for the middle and late periods of this upcoming winter. High-latitude blocking often comes with negative phases of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Artic Oscillation (AO), and/or the Eastern Pacific Oscillation (EPO). High-latitude blocking is one most important factors in any […]

Monitoring the Stratosphere in November

Well, we’d be wrong not to mention that we are all rejuvenating from releasing our winter forecast for 2015-16. We hoped you all enjoyed reading it –whether or not it was what you were hoping to hear. It took a lot of collaboration, research, and efforts between all of us here to put it together. In […]

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