Will Hand wrote:

Oh here we go, the first "winter is written off post before it has even
started" :-)

Not the first; I wrote it off here about a couple of months ago. ;-)

Mind you, that was based on the SST anomaly at the time and I warned that
there was plenty of time for it to change. A week ago I'd probably have
stuck to a mild, westerly type of winter but the latest SST picture has an
interesting development of a cold pool at 40N 40W. If this were to grow, the
odds against a cold winter could tumble.

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