Mild and boring was his call.
He knew it confidence was slipping at beginning of month as he posted some agency’s updated first half of month temps to one of his blogs. Maybe weather prediction center ... which originally favored mild but upon end of October flipped to near normal . ( shows that agency missed as well)
i said great this stubborn mule is gonna now downplay or ho-hum any cold to pigeon hole reality into a near miss on his forecast . Haven’t seen an update in 5 days.