We always have this one to look forward too LOL
Obviously the only model showing this BUT the air mass is much colder at this time. The way this year has gone it will be suppressed like the GFS is showing. Sorry if this belongs in the March thread.
NYC, LI and coastal NJ will be tough, however like you mentioned intensifying a bit further south and closer and the aforementioned locations can get accumulating snow.
Massive massive potential for 84.
That's cause January acted like an El Nino. The December and February (with the latest storms and records) was a west displaced la Nina trough.
It just happens that California went from one pattern to another that hit them hard. Like in 95/96 where each pattern alternation we went into happened to work out for us. The same is happening this year for them.