It’s been a struggle to go calm but also to get actually cold 850s. -15 isn’t very cold, those -35s in the upper Midwest are but will get modified by the lakes. North of us has been even warmer relative to average with the big negative NAO block. It’s just been dry average and windy, lots of blah this year. Last winter was much better so far and even warmer, lol. Been a brutal pattern and winter so far.