[Mike Darancette]

One area where it's often "screwy" is in high-latitude areas near ice packs.

Hope so, but that is a rather large area.

[John H K]

I've seen a lot bigger, such as a supposed dark-brown warm anomlaly covering all of Hudson Bay for weeks.

Actually, the one interesting thing about the current anomaly map is the cooling of the eastern ENSO (El Nino) area.

ENSO has been vaguely neutral for a long time, it's POSSIBLE a weak La Nina might be developing.