On Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 6:17:07 AM UTC-4, Graham P Davis wrote:


As far as UK weather is concerned, I don't see ENSO as a major player in
the game.

It's certainly not something to which to unthinkingly cleave but depending on circumstances it can be influential - less so than North America, for instance, but it's not ineffectual. It's one climate driver among a bucket of others.

Far more important is the area now ignored by the Met Office;
it seems they have forgotten all about the research made fifty-odd years
ago. Mind you, they're not alone in that as many scientists these days
seem to have memories that go back no further than a decade.


If they ignore it then they probably shouldn't. We don't. There's plenty of other useful research in the past 50 years in addition, though.


Stephen
Indianapolis, IN.