weatherjunkie

What sort of things should I be looking for to produce the pattern? I appreciate the help.

Very interesting topic and I enjoy the discussion. Would you say that the current warming over the Western Canadian regions favors ridging along the Western U.S and troughing along the Central and Eastern U.S areas over the course of the next 1-1.5 months?

I have traveled far and wide on the world wide web and I have only found websites that contain the GME and it only forecasts for Europe. I was wondering if the GME also did forecasts for Canada, U.S or even all of North America. While I am searching for models that many in the U.S don't use, anyone have a link to the Brasilian and Australian for the Northern Hemisphere and or North America? Thank you.

From what I have gathered the increased easterly winds in the northern hemisphere at 200mb in the polar latitudes have caused the sudden stratospheric warming, or as you like to call it the Major-Mid Winter Warming; to my knowledge it hasn't been this strong during this time of year since 1978. This would set up high latitude blocking over the Northern Atlantic and hopefully some more winter cold outbreaks. By the way, awesome discussion. I still learning how to put the pieces of the puzzle together like the momentum fluxes and frictional torques. I hope that these discussions continue.