I wonder if we might see a tight gradient from very warm SW to very cold NW this winter. Already seeing some signs of that regime setting up. If so this could be a wild winter for us.
This makes me think of girls I used to know when I was growing up that were called tom boys. They liked to do boyish things and they were totally accepted. The ones I knew all grew up to be perfectly normal women. Now if a girl is like that she is confronted with pressure to transition to being a boy.