The Farmer’s Almanac also calls for a very cold winter. Maybe the climate modelers have a link in their code to the Almanac.
If it be G-d’s will; my wife and I will be out of Red Hampshire and back to the south within a few weeks.
http://www.almanac.com/content/2014%E2%80%932015-winter-weather-forecast-map-us
Maybe where you are - but for the west, the Almanac predicts a mild winter...