Yeah, I’m a pessimistic as they come, but I think the warmth issue is being overplayed. Unless you are on or within 5 miles of a beach, I think it’ll be fine.
Yeah, it happens fairly often and I think this storm will also be a good candidate. Hell I remember an event when I worked in duxbury where the high school close to the water got nothing but the otherwise of town got several inches. A couple miles away from the water could go from slop to fir flattener