Nah, you were right and I was wrong on not reaching 2.0. All I am saying is that the upper bounds of my range was 1.9, so I never thought it was far fetched. The 2.3+ stuff that you were originally suggesting is what I thought was laughable.
I would not be suprised at all by an ending like 2007. It's been one of my primary analogs.
That was another case with the forcing so far west that we had a great deal of cool ENSO like Maritime continent influence.
Most of the people against it had it like just under....I don't really see the big deal. He was saying like over 2.3 for a while. That is what I thought was foolish. But yea....it barely finished above my 1.9 range from June. And technically, it didn't reach 2.0.