can't make it up....however looking at the Euro ensembles most of the cold air ends up in the moutain west/midwest-we end up a few degrees below normal but not the -10 that you're seeing out that way
Too late in the year-would just be a cold rain for most. Also have to question how cold it gets, there's been very little cold anywhere since late December
Seems like there is less cold this year though-I'm wondering if I've had my last freeze already. SST's in the western ATL are well above normal so even with the onshore flow it likely won't be as bad as last year which had a cold pool off the NE coast....
I've learned that if it doesn't come by late January it's generally not coming....you have a couple lucky outliers but for the most part we're toast if the pattern change doesn't arrive by then
some including him using analogs from colder times, oceans were colder etc. What worked in the winter of 60-61 is not applicable for today's baseline....
I think that could be the big difference from last year to this year along with the warm water off the coast (vs the cold water of last year) Of course we could get caught in a squeeze play b/w the ridge and the -NAO and end up with a rainy pattern.