Yeah it has been advertising that look since July I believe. Been steadfast with a bigtime HL blocking look. I guess the true test is to see if it begins to develop in early to mid Nov, as it has been indicating that to be the case for several runs now. We won't have to wait too long to see if it is onto something, or way out in left field.
eta- just looked and it is much different now, so something has changed lol. The original Oct 1 run had a bigtime -AO/-NAO like the previous runs- now it looks more like the CFS. Oh well. More in line with the rest of the seasonal/climate models.