The Models have severely underestimated the +EPO, there was models hinting a cold wave in long range but the ++EPO would not let it even happen, don't count out the end of December yet.
Northern Virginia gets clipped by the snow on Next Wednesday.
However, there is a major storm next Sunday on the 18z GFS with snow as far south as Georgia & Western North Carolina.
I've found at least 4 major Scenarios for this storm system:
Strong Southern Track (One that will dump a LOT of snow)
Weak Southern Track
Strong Northern Track
Weak Northern Track
I've been around since 2003, I was born in CT.
This is an unusual setup as well, we don't usually have a big snowstorm anywhere from the Central Plains to the East Coast with a +NAO, +AO, & +EPO
The GEFS is also being somewhat consistent as well, here's the Mean Snowfall up to 7 days out on the 12z, even though that the signal is somewhat weaker compared to 6z