AJC3 wrote:CYCLONE MIKE wrote:Means the gfs has absolutely no idea what is going on. Doesn't get up nor pushed west by building high so just keeps it in same spot for days.
Quite the contrary - what the solution is showing is that the circulation consolidates far enough east that it gets trapped in the col region between the ridge to the NW and the trough axis to the NE. Now, whether that is realistic or not - that's another matter, but to say the model "has absolutely no idea" isn't really the case.
Thanks for the explanation there ajc, appreciate it. I do think its pretty unrealistic though.