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