Sub-seasonal to annual precipitation forecasts are of strong interest for hydrological and agricultural planning and outcomes. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the strongest interannual signal in the climate system. It develops around the tropical Pacific Ocean and is the most important mode of global climate variability (McPhaden et al., 2006;Nigam & Sengupta, 2021). There is an extensive literature on the teleconnections of ENSO to regional precipitation including future predictability (