Yeah....going back to the 20th century there were quite a few good ones. Some others in this century as well like Nov 2000. Ironically the sickest I ever was on Christmas was 1996. Just a day before the big snowstorm. That was the only time I spent Christmas alone.

Inversion prospects look decent at least. That would certainly soothe me for a while.

Fair enough. There was a pretty good inversion here around Christmas 1993. Salem only had one freezing high, but the fog didn't clear for over a week in the east valley and Silverton had 5 days with highs below freezing around Christmas. I remember it was so miserable because my whole family had the flu during that time too. We were all so sick we just had some chicken soup and green beans for Christmas dinner.

Ouch!

Those are two biggest fake cold spells I've had here. Jan 2013 was a bit more impressive, but the 2005 one actually began with some snow.