40/70 Benchmark

I feel pretty good about next season not being a complete blood bath is all I mean.

Just state with years lol I mentioned many....

I expect it to be warmer than last year, but not as warm as many of these seasons over the past decade...I don't think it will be prohibitively warm for a lot of us...but I also don't expect a predominate east coast storm track, either. I agree with Chris there.

Yes, they are heavily biased towards stock ENSO composites......and I know Chris called for the mismatch period, as did I, but I don't think anyone forecasted a +PNA and near normal temps in the seasonal mean....as impure as the PNA was at times being biased west and what not.... A mismatch period is one thing, but that just wasn't a warm winter per modern 1991-2020 climo I do think this trend is noteworthy despite the continued cool ENSO favor to the hemisphere...which is why I posted it. Not to claim its going to necessarily be cold.

Right....this is a tough pill for some to swallow, apparently.

Any long range ensemble suite is going to have a smoothed mean....and I know most of the climate guidance is an average of a number of runs smoothed out. This is why you never see 2 feet of snowfall predicated from an ensemble mean at day 7....it doesn't mean it can't happen, nor does it mean that the data doesn't have value. I agree the trend is somewhat important.

Which years? All of the 2nd year La Ninas?

Look like another nice break from the heat after about Wednesday.

I'll bet anyone $1000 that the CANASIPS seasonal was too warm in the fall of 2014 for the subsequent winter of 2014-2015. I mean in the seasonal mean...probably not for December.

Seasonal models are never going to accurately depict any anomaly of that magnitude, though....and obviously all of the higher magnitude anomalies have been warm over the past decade, so that is going to cause a cold bias. Go back to the fall of 2014 and show me a seasonal that nailed that anomaly.....

I seem to remember the CANSIPS being pretty consistent with showing a colder look last season...maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, I don't argue the inaccuracy of climate models at 6 month leads....I just posted it because I thought that the consensus was interesting.

If it were a wall-to-wall inferno and I posted it, do you think snowman would have posted a giggling emoji and called me Bluewave? He simply would have liked the post and perhaps made a passing comment about the IOD coupling with La Niña as added support.

How did I know posting the seasonal consensus would spark a debate because it isn't a blow torch.

Just to be clear, I was just thought that the current consensus was noteworthy.....I'm not expecting a cold winter.

Yes...and maybe for most places last season was good, but it was nothing short of atrocious where I am. And no.....I would take 2016-2017 over any of those seasons mentioned.