During the past 60 days, the NOAA AI Eagle has performed well forecasting the weather pattern (500 MB anomalies) across the northern hemisphere during the 6-10-day/11-15-day medium range forecast.

Despite the presence of record-strength -IOD and onset of La Nina, 2 wet biased climate producers for Australia, the OCT-25 climate pattern was dry in the East and featured widespread record-breaking heat. An unusually strong negative phase of the Antarctic oscillation is to blame.

The U.S. gas population weight HDD forecast trend is warmer for the first 2/3 of November likely to stay that way through early meteorological winter. In the U.S., the cold risk is during mid-to-late winter. Western Europe HDDs are generally warmer than normal for upcoming winter and not as cold as the past 2 winter seasons during January.

Recent research regarding “Sensitivity of Easterly QBO’s Boreal Winter Teleconnections and Surface Impacts to SSWs” by Dillon Elsbury, Amy Butler, Yannick Peings, and Gudrun Magnusdottir was reviewed to assess the claim that wintertime SSWs are more common during the easterly phase of QBO. The question is important due to the direct connection of sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events causing a split in the polar vortex with southward migration to Eurasia and North America causing arctic air generation and outbreaks for high population middle latitude locations.