BEST ANALOG YEARS
WEATHER NORTHWEST
OREGON WEATHER CENTER
1000 PM PST SUN JAN 23 2022

  MEI ANALOGS: (Data through  , )
       (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/klaus.wolter/MEI/table.html) 

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  CPC SOI ANALOGS: (Data through December, 2021)
       (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/correlation/soi.data) 

       Rank    9 Months    12 Months   18 Months   24 Months 
       ====    ========    =========   =========   ========= 
         1       2020        1999        1999        2008 
         2       2007        2008        2008        1955 
         3       1954        1962        1955        1961 
         4       1960        1974        1962        1974 
         5       1999        2000        2000        1962 
         6       1970        1960        1960        1996 
         7       1996        2011        1974        1989 
         8       2017        1956        1961        2018 
         9       2008        1955        1996        1960 
        10       1973        1989        2017        2000 


  BOM SOI ANALOGS: (Data through December, 2021)
       (ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/ncc/www/sco/soi/soiplaintext.html) 

       Rank    9 Months    12 Months   18 Months   24 Months 
       ====    ========    =========   =========   ========= 
         1       1954        1999        1999        2008 
         2       2020        1962        1962        1955 
         3       2007        2008        2008        1962 
         4       1960        1974        1955        1961 
         5       1942        2000        2000        1943 
         6       1999        1943        1960        1974 
         7       1970        1960        1961        1960 
         8       1962        1954        1996        2018 
         9       2008        2011        1943        1989 
        10       1996        1955        1974        1996 


ONI ANALOGS: (Data through OND, 2020) (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/oni.ascii.txt) Rank 9 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months ==== ======== ========= ========= ========= 1 1966 2010 1995 1995 2 2010 1995 1961 1966 3 1961 1966 1966 1961 4 1995 1983 2010 1959 5 1983 1961 1984 2007 6 1960 1984 1983 2010 7 1999 1999 2007 1980 8 1980 2000 1959 1970 9 1984 2007 1960 1960 10 1959 1960 2000 1984 NINO3 ANALOGS: (Data through December, 2021) (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/correlation/nina3.data) Rank 9 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months ==== ======== ========= ========= ========= 1 1996 1996 1996 1996 2 2011 1962 1967 1960 3 1974 1960 1962 1962 4 1960 2011 2011 2011 5 1962 1984 1960 1967 6 1989 1967 2000 1961 7 1984 2001 2001 1981 8 2000 1989 1961 1985 9 1995 1981 1999 2001 10 1966 1999 1985 2000 NINO4 ANALOGS: (Data through December, 2021) (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/correlation/nina4.data) Rank 9 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months ==== ======== ========= ========= ========= 1 1967 1967 1984 1996 2 1959 2011 1996 1984 3 1952 1984 1967 1967 4 2011 1962 1960 2008 5 2007 1951 1962 1959 6 1983 1996 2008 2011 7 1996 1960 2012 1960 8 1962 2001 2001 2017 9 1984 2012 1985 1981 10 1961 1961 1952 1953

PNA ANALOGS: (Data through December, 2021) (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/correlation/pna.data) Rank 9 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months ==== ======== ========= ========= ========= 1 1964 1964 2018 1964 2 1965 2018 1959 2018 3 1962 1962 1964 1961 4 2018 1974 1962 1959 5 1974 1965 2008 1962 6 1968 1954 1961 2003 7 2009 1959 1965 1965 8 2008 1967 2020 1974 9 1977 2008 1974 2008 10 1967 1999 1967 2019 PDO ANALOGS: (Data through , ) (http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/PDO.latest) Rank 9 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months ==== ======== ========= ========= ========= 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 WP ANALOGS: (Data through December, 2021) (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/correlation/wp.data) Rank 9 Months 12 Months 18 Months 24 Months ==== ======== ========= ========= ========= 1 1991 1952 1952 2019 2 2018 2018 2017 2017 3 1952 1973 2019 1952 4 1981 2008 2018 2020 5 1973 2017 2016 2018 6 2008 2016 1973 2007 7 2019 1988 1960 2008 8 2017 2019 2008 1960 9 2006 2020 1998 1991 10 1971 2007 2020 1993 Note: "Best" analog is the year with the lowest total absolute difference between the given index value for the previous 9 (12, 18, 24) months and the index for the corresponding months of the year in question.