I meant March. The March look seems closer to the ensembles and weeklies vs 1956. Even taking into account that 1956 on the reanalysis will show blue anomalies everywhere because it was colder back then...still seems 2018 might be a closer match.
Edit week 3 on weeklies has some semblance of 56 too.
I guess I need the caveat that in no way do I expect the outcome of those years lol.