I mentioned punting in jest, but if I had to make a wager, I would be lying if I said I wouldn't put my money on a complete miss of a season.
But that's based entirely on the following:
1) I'm a realist. Optimists misjudge realists as pessimists. Realistically, despite seeing several car and ground topper events IMBY already, the overall pattern has been complete dogeshit. Outside of a few people that I truly believe may be wishcasting based on some metrics that may not be worth the weight they are given, the general consensus appears to be a blah winter.
2) I genuinely believe the global climate as a whole is shifting to where the Northeastern quadrant of the NA continent is becoming a rainforest with overall cooling due to the winter max climbing and the summer max dropping with more overcast and showery days. I have precisely zero science to defend this belief, but it *seems* like with a very few outliers here and there, the winters for the past two decades have been warmer/wetter and the summers cooler/wetter.
But that's just, you know... my opinion, man.