Just finishing brushing the egg off of my face from last season in time to begin parsing through data for the coming season.
Early ENSO thoughts are nothing surprising.
https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2019/08/first-look-at-enso-for-winter-2019-2020.html
I'd monitor this ... It's new. And it's emerged abruptly in the 5 hPa sigma level from the GEFs modeling. Not sure what the EPS presently has in mind for this day-10 range, but I personally am interested in whether if any SSW activity takes place this season, given the strong solar minimum that's on-going. There is an established correlation with solar minima and SSWs. There is also the QBO being in the positive mode, though slipping toward negative, that's actually anti-correlated/mitigates,