There isn't a lot of good news but if we're dredging the bottom for silver linings there are two positives I can throw out from recent runs.  Both the gefs and EPS continue to have a few members that throw a fluke frozen event in the middle of our warm period. Both seem to do this by running a high across to our north and timing up a wave under it. With the conus flooded with warm that would only work during peak climo but mud Jan is when some marginal crap like that can sometimes get er do