WE have been so invested in all these storm threats that keep finding new ways to fail that we haven't had much talk about the long range... The -NAO has been quite stout and in combo of a little bit of EPO cold air dump has given us a cold regime as was advertised a few weeks ago...through Dec 16th, we've had the following temperature departures: BOS: -3.2F ORH: -4.1F PVD: -3.9F BDL: -3.9F Here is the composite 500mb anomalies for the first half of the month You can see the classic -NA