IMHO, it's way too early at the moment to be casting any judgement one way or the other wrt the output beyond next week as we are talking about 10+ days away. That is a very long time in model output terms and not a range we can have anything even approaching a small level of confidence in just now.
Next week still looks rather unsettled as per the present moment and what we have seen over the past three weeks. That is about as much as we can have anything like a reasonable amount of confidence in right now. Beyond next week, who knows, but there are some subtle suggestions appearing in some op runs now of a change in pattern after next week. What sort of change it will be, assuming it happens at all, we don't know and won't know for some time yet. However that is what is being suggested at least in some runs.
Originally Posted by: David M Porter