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Nashville NWS did a study on winters and ENSO that proposes 5-year climate trends have more influence over Middle Tennessee winters than ENSO. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ssd/techmemo/sr231.pdf

 

The last few years have obviously been on a cold 5-year plan. Even the so-called mild 15 years could be broken down into 5-year increments and explained by the 5-year signal and ENSO combo. It is fascinating and informative to see data driven research for operational forecast use.

 

Longer 30/60 year cycles are influenced by the PDO, AMO and sunspots. However they may all be correlated with each other, and all influence ENSO tendency. When in doubt, back to Nashville's 5-year plans. Additional climo debate has to go in the Climate forum, but for operational forecasting one should expect ebb and flow, pauses and acceleration of trends. Cheers!

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Australia has started 2014 in a record heatwave. But it's not just confined to there. The western US and Alaska have been amazingly warm. The Iditarod is in trouble this year due to lack of snow cover. It rained in Fairbanks in January this year, that's also extremely rare. We just got under the cold that was out there finally. It spent years going to China, Korea or Europe.

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