Yeah, really pleasing to the SE peeps. What looked like early in as being basically a snowless, SER dominated Winter turned out quite the contrary. Those late Fall near record to warmest Winter on Record Forecasts busted big time.
In all fairness, I was one that thought that would be the case as well. I think 99% of us did. The writing was on the Wall with all the Driver's pointing to that at the time. The PDO was the biggest change imo that flipped things. Rapidly went from strong negative to slightly positive. The +QBO was expected to basically keep the AO and NAO positive but, that wasn't the Case. I wonder what might have been had it been negative.?. The MJO was expected to hang in warm phases due to the Nina and PDO. That didn't happen either. What Nina there was, was later developing than Forecast.
An interesting Winter to study for sure. A good Project for you Larry.