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What happened to all the "vortex split coming!" posts??

@bamwxcom I’ve been in the mid-teens and thunder sleet in Oklahoma. 🙂

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@bamwxcom Curious to see the AIFS performance on SSWs in the medium and long-range versus the other dynamical models (and even the ensembles).

@Lclimateguy You’re comparing a single week anomaly to a whole month’s anomaly map. That isn’t a good comparison. And, conditions are not the same as Feb 2014, including downstream.

@webberweather I have not looked specifically into that, though sample size would be small for robust conclusions.

@Snowlover111232 I make plots like that myself. :)

@ScottSabolFOX8 I'm not blaming you or anything. Just - we (again, community) go through this every single time a major weather event is shown in model runs (snowstorm, heatwave, SSW).

@Snowlover111232 I don't see it in the ensembles (this is 50 hPa). I see distortions and weakening for sure, but not a split.

@Lclimateguy @ScottSabolFOX8 And stratospheric wave reflection, which a strong polar vortex favors.

All this is to say - we have this flurry of activity every year when a long-range model predicts a major SSW. The fact is - the prediction skill for our current forecasts for SSWs is very low beyond Day 10. Lots will get lost in colorful maps. :)