Exactly-thats why you want a scrape or miss OTS from this range. NW trends usually continue right up to go time so this (based on prior events) is likely to be mostly rain for the city/coast. Airmass in Canada is not all that cold either...
First it was late December, then it was Jan 1 now we're pushing into Jan. Pessimism? Can you blame anyone-NYC is coming up on 2 yrs w/o an inch of snow....
my sons are 14 now and they were used to 30-50 inch winters for most of the time up til about 2018. Now they know what the 80's were like for us parents...LOL