Yes it didn't used to necessarily mean a mild winter of us, but this pattern in the modern era has meant the jet maintaining at Northern latitude with the resultant Azores/Bartlett combo for us.
With Solar still dropping toward min we should also be factoring in more blocking in the Atlantic so if we do see this e/w split across the US with the PV slipping into NE Canada/NE US then any cyclogenisis from frigid airs dropping into the Atlantic would again follow Greenlands east coast and into the Arctic Basin via Svalbard.
Will we see the Beast From the East make it far enough west to give us proper cold? That has to be the question?
We only need a period of deep cold entrenched over us and then see an encroaching low drifting in from the west, carrying the same precipitation rates that flooded here on Boxing Day 2015, and we will then have many feet of snow over a single day!!! ( I can dream).
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