It's been along time since I've had below normal temps in December, it was common in the 80s and 90s. GEFS Extended and weeklies showing a below normal temps for December as a whole. Unfortunately it will be rather dry for 3 wewks or so. Hopefully we can get some storms to roll through in time for Christmas.

When I used to correspond with Nick Bond (who later became the WA State Climatologist) back in the 1990s he used the term when I was talking to him, and I liked it. I later used it on a much earlier incarnation of this forum, and it stuck. I'm not sure if that is the entire genesis of it, but it could be.

Gets a little chilly in fantasyland...

We're getting somewhere...

That possible outcome still has a pulse at least.