I haven't watched followed the model and winter forecasts for very long, in fact only since last year but from what I understand is that 2016 is a year in which unprecedented, unpredicted things happened like the sudden reversal of the QBO, the very early SSW and PV split, immensely hot arctic and incredibly cold snowy Siberia and all the excited tweets from Matt Hugo and Judah Cohen, I think we are in for quite a surprise this winter and the models have no clue...