WeatherBell (Both D'Aleo and JB) indicate that their analog years have it warm around the holiday season. Indicate MJO also was in the warm phases during this time. Latest Pioneer long range and the CPC run is cold for January. I guess we will know in another month if they were right. The theme this year is enjoy the good holiday travel and don't start to panic until about the first week of January if the pattern still looks boring...