1. 13-14 was cold neutral per this:
https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ONI_v5.php
2. Officially per ONI, we still don’t know if 18-19 will have 5 trimonthlies in a row to reach El Niño status in retrospect. I’m pretty sure it will get to 4 in a row with DJF but it will need JFM to get to 5 in a row. With Jan having faded so much, JFM may end up lower than +0.5. It depends on the next 6 weeks or so. I realize people will say “what difference does it make?”, but it is what it is officially. So, if this doesn’t make it as El Niño, then I’d have to retract my statements about this winter quite possibly making it to the warmest of 48 on record at ATL and this by a large margin being the warmest El Niño Feb on record. Part of me would like to see that happen as it would be pretty funny and also it may sort of explain why the typical temp pattern of colder SE US than northern tier didn’t happen. Neutral positive winters, notwithstanding 1935-6, have usually not been cold in the SE.