Correct.
The guys glossing it over by saying every winter is above normal are missing the point. using the new baseline, it still would be a warmer than normal winter.
Lets see what November brings.
This week is shot again.
Back above normal already, 80 tomorrow, 70s through Friday. It doesn’t signal a cool down or a pattern change, but rather a transient cool shot.
Let’s see how we do early next week. If late next week starts to look like 70 again, you know what we are dealing with…and it isnt good