California in a perfect heat lock

 

We have two types of locks - heat and ice.  During a lock, the tropical plumes just go around.  I expect this for Toronto in the summer.  It's all due to weakness with the Pacific plumes because of the lack of heat energy.  

There are signs that the Arctic is in classic recharge, so we have the big spills separated by a week or so.  This is what we had earlier into the winter.  It is probably the only thing that can blow out the heat lock.

ps the stagnant zone is spreading like a cancer.  However, I'm going 50% that the Arctic is just in recharge.  The micro heating event is now hooking strongly down.  It's a new pattern that may or may not last.