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If there is going to be significant outbreak potential with the MJO cycle this month, it is going to be specifically with the system at the end of next week. That doesn't mean there is going to be an outbreak, but IF there is going to be one with this MJO cycle, it's that specific wave. The global scale is as favorable as it possibly can ever be, with the MJO amping from Africa into the Indian Ocean and then in Phase 2 or crossing right out of Phase 2 into Phase 3 the day of the potential system, and this global-size velocity potential anomaly couplet in place with upward motion over the IO and Asia and a big suppressive wave over the Pacific and Americas with a localized upward motion max right with the synoptic wave itself. Then, the -PDO in place with the strongly positive TNI configuration with below-normal water in the western ENSO regions and significantly above-normal water temps in the eastern ENSO regions. The daily TNI off the CDAS data today is +2.46, which is at the high high end of high-end positive, and it's among some of the highest values I've ever seen while in real-time. The global / hemispheric / teleconnection scale is as set as it ever possibly can be. It doesn't get more favorable than this (which lets you know what the global scale is similar to). It's just a matter of whether or not the individual synoptic waves in the scales below that fully cooperate or not. The larger scale sets up guardrails for the result of the scales below it to fall in between, like the synoptic scale does the same for the mesoscale... but just because the global scale is as aligned as it ever can be doesn't mean the synoptic and mesoscale levels fully cooperate to the 100% fullest. They very well may not. But the potential is there for something of a significant magnitude, and IF it's going to happen, it would be with that specific system late next week.