Why would anyone recommend any seasonal forecast, let alone strongly recommend? That gives the impression there's an ounce of worth to any of them, which there isn't. All the technical presentation in the world changes nothing.
When I first visited TWO in the early noughties, the only thing I really read was the long range forecasts . I don't agree that they have no credibility; they just arn't going to be as accurate as short term ones.
Well you're wrong I'm afraid.
As I've said before - show me the link to the agency that produces regularly accurate seasonal forecasts and I'll hold my hands up. There isn't one. Even the professionals will tell you seasonal forecasting is currently impossible.
I would go as far as to say they are a complete load of bull and a waste of time if it weren't that nothing has ever been achieved by giving up. Of course it has to be continued to be explored, but to suggest there any one out there is better than another, let alone from an amateur site, is total and utter nonsense, and misleading nonsense at that. I have a real bugbear about this. It annoys the hell out of me when people confidently claim something that is totally wrong.