Paul Bartlett notwithstanding, do we have any resident people who
yearly attempt to do some pattern-matching with previous years ahead
of the forthcoming winter? If so, can we have your thoughts please?

No movement from the UCL guys for this winter (Adam Lea are you
reading?!) http://climate.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/for_nao.html - nor the MO,
I'm always interested to see what ounce of useful information we can
get out of these forecasts.

Cheers
Richard