I done a quick comparrison of the sst,s going back 10 years. The last time we had a cold pool off to our south west was 2003. What a great winter we had. We had two lows dive south and cold air under cut them, lots of the white stuff.
Link to comparasion.
http://www.irelandsw...index.php/topic,391.0.html
Also note this present plunge from the labador current
http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sst/sst_loop.gif