Yes he was! In recent years he gets destroyed and bashed on here much to his own doing but there was a time years ago he was very good. In 2002 he kept insisting the cold and snow was coming and of course it never did but after that he had a good run and made some excellent seasonal forecasts. He had a good call on the flip to cold in late January 2007 and went warm the following winter which turned out accurate in 2008. I would say stubbornness in the 2011/2012 winter started his downhill spiral.