Who is sticking the Ullr voodoo doll with pins??

I guess we should do a few shots!

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It looks like ULLR moved to California.....

From Howard Sheckter's Dweeb Report Blog:

FROM WEDNESDAY:

IT STILL APPEARS THAT A WET PATTERN WILL DEVELOP ABOUT MID MONTH THAT COULD BRING A BONANZA OF SNOWFALL TO THE SIERRA.

AS STATED EARLIER......THE MIDDLE AND END OF FEBRUARY LOOKS VERY INTERESTING FOR A MAJOR WET PATTERN. THIS IS DISCUSSED IN ED BERRY'S MOST RECENT DISCUSSION AND COMMENTED BY THE DWEEBS OVER THE WEEKEND. IN MY OPINION, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD COME CLOSE TO DOUBLING THE SNOW PACK IN THE CENTRAL SIERRA BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. IT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE LATTER ARE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. MORE LATER...................

DR HOWARD AND THE DWEEBS..........................


INTER SEASONAL:

ED BERRY'S LATEST DISCUSSION WAS QUITE INTERESTING FRIDAY. HE CHATTED ABOUT THE RELOADING OF LA NINA AND THE SSW IN PROGRESS. THE SSW IS A STRATOSPHERIC WARMING PHENOMENON WHEREBY LARGE ANOMALIES OF ZONAL MEAN EASTERLY WIND FLOW IS PROPAGATING DOWNWARD INTO THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERIC HIGH LATTS.

ED STATES THAT ON A LARGE SCALE, A POSSIBLE REGIONAL-SCALE RESPONSE IS FOR THE CURRENT BLOCKING OVER SCANDINAVIA TO RETROGRADE "OR BACK UP" OVER THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND CANADA, THEN INTO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.

A BLOCK THAT MOVES IN THAT FASHION WOULD SUPPRESS THE POLAR JET WELL TO THE SOUTH...THUS POSSIBLY FORCING THE JET TO ENTER THE CONUS THROUGH CENTRAL OR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THEN ON THROUGH THE SOUTHERN TIER STATES. IF THIS DEVELOPS, WE COULD BE IN FOR QUITE A WET PATTERN FOR A FEW WEEKS. THE DWEEBS WILL KNOW MORE LATER NEXT WEEK.

Unfortunately, there may be little joy in Mudville. This is looking a lot like "The Little Winter That Can't".

this cali weather prediction is highly unlikely....we had this splitting last year and it resulted in a greenland block late season that delivered one of the best March/Aprils in years.This year won't be that good.But if your going to load the truck for California, I be home by the 16th ... snow will be in the PNW soon.Of coarse on the off chance I'm wrong..........I'm willing to drive as far as Taos

not 10 mins after writing that last post I come to read that indeed there may be a consensus building about a major southern shift in the storm track.....I love skiiing S Colorado & New Mexico but driving for snow is already killing me this year....Taos plans being made

More from the Dweeb Report of Howard Shekter:

ED BERRYS LATEST DISCUSSION INDICATED THAT LONG WAVE UPPER RIDGE WILL CONTINUE IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PACIFIC FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. THIS WILL CONTINUE THE WET PATTERN OF CALIFORNIA...MORE OFTEN THAN NOT. HE ALSO HINTED THAT THIS PATTERN MAY CONTINUE THROUGH SPRING OF 2009.

It would appear (and I wish it weren't the case) that we will have to place our snowfall hopes on the anomalies, i.e. "More often than not"

Shekter also states in a quote from Ed Berry that this is a SCal event that is 3 standard deviations out of the norm.