Hope for the winter (hope for skiers and snowshoers that is), the weather pattern
may not repeat with a wet fall, dry winter and wet,cool spring. The blob is unexpectedly on it's way out. With it gone our winter should now be uncertain (who knows?) and California may see an end to the 2 year+ drought. In California the pattern was called the RRR - ridiculously resilient ridge.
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