Fair point but I've seen some patterns where a certain set of analogs are used and then the sensible weather ends up nothing like it...maybe that's just part of the equation it's not always a match in the end...
my house faces south and the 3 wreaths are hurting from the sun exposure and some of the warm days...shedding needles everywhere-might dump one of them on 12/26 lol
Similar to the Feb outbreak that froze Texas a couple years ago-we got a storm then but it was a mixed bag and the cold was run of the mill by the time it got here.
that's the problem it always looks good day 10-15 then it craps the bed medium term. This ended up being one of those warm -NAO patterns. Very similar to Dec 96....