I'm just curious to get a few unbiased opinions on what you guys think might happen in the NW part of the country during the remainder of the winter. So far it has been an absolute turd in a punchbowl here. Very disappointing when so many forecasters thought it would be a great winter out here.

You're banned from talking about models to not jinx it in the future.

Well if winter is canceled than I'm ready for the first 90 burger now.

Oops! This DID NOT age well. Yikes. The GEFS has unfortunately folded well before 12/27 moving towards the progressive ECMWF/EPS/CMCE. Ah well... At this point hoping we can score a huge persistent cold pool with prolonged east wind, which is what the ensembles seem to show now. I'd much rather have a nice dose of fake cold and east winds than to see the progressive pattern continuing. I still have some cautious optimism that the models will kill the West Pacific Jet, but not much. 00z GFS in 2 hours 16 minutes

For a short time we had some model consensus that early January was in play, but that totally collapsed today. No doubt the outcome is looking pretty much like what Phil said. I'm hopeful we can at least get some chilly inversion type days. The lack of cold right now is killing me.