the blocking showed up in March/April/May leading to cold and rain most of the time...granted not the 2nd half of winter per se, but the pattern finally came when it was mainly too late.
A cold November is often a waste. Still often to warm for snow and then it warms up in December after the pattern breaks down....but let's hope for a pattern change-seems that we've already started with the cold pattern being 15 days away....
sometimes the outlier is the correct solution. While the big amts the NAM had a few runs didn't pan out, it had the best general idea of precip well into New England.
Makes sense-water off the coast is well above normal and Arctic sea ice was below normal so can see a warm start to December as we've often see the past few years...