Not sure how anyone can look at this pattern & thinks it sucks for E US snows.

Cold? Sure.

For ex: the process of the N Pac jet retracting even a little bit w/ a still very deep Aleutian/GOA vortex is all it takes sometimes to produce a huge KU event w/ -NAO like that pic.twitter.com/VkcZXploux

— Eric Webb (@webberweather) December 30, 2020