40/70 Benchmark

That is on par with the phase 8/1 November plots.

JMA EMI forecast has been slowly inching upwards since last spring....now getting near 2003 with a peak of .72 (.60 last month) in Feb.

Intelligence helps, but in my opinion, the characteristic most highly correlated with forecast proficiency is an open mind and the understanding that something can be learned from everyone. I have learned that the hard way after being really pig-headed for awhile.

Why would a weaker -AO block build further south than more extreme ones? Shouldn't the opposite be the case?

Who tweeted that?

Ditto.

Hopefully this set sup shop and we continue to get modoki forcing.

Not so much about age, but the experience and being tethered to a particular way of doing things, which happens to come with age.

Think back to the movie "Titanic"....when they were talking about how all of that captain's wealth of experience worked against him in that he could not wrap his mind around how to navigate a ship of that size around the iceberg. Circumstances change and there comes a time when a fresh, unfiltered perspective is preferable to the rigidity of an aging, seasoned professional.

I also feel like some of these older experts can become their own worst enemy in a climate that is changing as fast as Earth's is today....kind of like Belicheck with the Patriots in that he is so rigid and resistant to change at this advanced stage of his career that the blind adherence to the same philosophies and ideologies that have ascended him to the top of his profession is beginning to wok against him in a rapidly evolving league. The NFL and the climate are changing fast, and some of these elder experts need to adjust when they may lack the capacity to do so at this stage.

IMHO, denying this is the case is synonymous with arguing that CC doesn't exist. You can't have it both ways.... @snowman19was quick to mention GW in his list of reasons why this season won't be as cold as 2009-2010...well, GW is also takes up residence on the list of reasons why this particular ENSO events will be remembered as being relatively modest.

The tweet by Beneficiary that I quoted epitomizes this entire ENSO....just like the ONI, all of these historical bench mark values are misleading in such a warm Pacific basin in that they are exaggerating the intensity of el Nino.

Care to address his point, as opposed to simply berating him? I'm going to let you in on little secret....Paul Roundy farts and pisses like the rest of us and is sometimes wrong. I would suggest prying open your mind and engaging in a bit more independent thought, as opposed to clinging to his feedback like a life buoy. I don't know how many times I have seen pro meteorologists express an opinion that I was quite confident was wrong and I ended up being right. The most seasoned professionals are not infallible, especially within a frontier science such as seasonal forecasting...medium range is difficult enough.

This is like the ENSO version one of those winters where the cold is always ten days out...some catch on, others do not.

Miss this?

5/8 those seasons were good to great here.

You didn't mention the MEI/RONI...

1.28"

Less NE screw years when that is the case, too.

Absolutely correct.

Nino is not super, PDO will probably be negative, but not extremely so...its already rising quickly and the PNA can still be positive, regardless. We still have 10 more days for the SAI, but as we have seen the past several years, it is just one tool and has its limitations.

Yea, what a dumb post.

I don't think this has to be a one trick pony season.

No.