Yes we are going to get warm again , so when we total it all up we will have a erased a full month of winter, Dec 20 - Jan 20.
And losing that portion of prime time winter stings.
But winter is not dead.
The EPS and GEFS start to flatten the ridge out in the L/R and CFS wants to take the MJO into p8 between day 15 - 20.
The result would be that winter in some form would return at the back end of the month.
If the CFS is right winter will return as that wants to force in 7/8/1.