This long term weather forecasting has very seldom produced the expected results.
I am an avid rider of snowmobiles, I belong to the same club since I was 16. Over 40 years. We have tried to depend on all sorts of weather forecasting to schedule club rides or to buy a new machine here in up state ny. It’s a hit and miss business. They just don’t know.
I’m doing the normal things I always do. Get the firewood in, check everyone’s snow tires, make sure the cars are ready and stocked with emergency kits, storm windows ready to go up. Snow shovels ready to work. But that’s about it. If it snows I’ll ride, but I didn’t buy a new Ski Doo.
Just a few short years ago (within the last five) here in the northeast we had a non-winter; the worst snow storm was literally a Halloween surprise (some towns banned trick-or-treating due to the number of wires down - there were still so many leaves in the trees that they were weighed down and took wires with them). The rest of that winter we had almost no snow, and in terms of temperatures fall just morphed into spring.
I don’t think I’ve spent so little on heating in the dozen+ years I’ve had my home...