One thing that concerns me is that even with a 3-4 week window of "good" early winter, we're probably going to deal with that atmospheric river Grinch near 12/23-25.
I LOVE me a blizzard and that setup looks amazing for everyone(edit, at least E/SE 2/3 of NE :D) Ofc it's not gonna happen like that but ideally that's the December we all want