He is, but if you read his work, it specifies that the +5ish warmth will be localized. His actual analog composite isn't that warm....the localized +5 crap was the hand drawn map.
I just mean that the second half was lame. Obviously the ones that hang on well into January are the real winners. I think the key is get a PNA to take a handoff from the NAO, and/or a combo of really favorable EPO ridge/good timing.
Part of me is glad you're not god, yet part of me wants you anointed ASAP.
Hopefully this trend keeps up into winter, like Will said. You would think that something has to give with all of the water vapor in the air/very warm hemispheric SSTs coupled with how dry it was this past summer. There is so much latent energy both at the surface and in the atmosphere; lets light some damn matches-
Cosgrove is full steam ahead on your idea....active like '92-'93, '93-'94.
My analogs keep it fairly dry, but I'm not sure I buy that due to all of the water vapor after that volcano.