In one of my all time winters 1960-61, after the great blizzard of 12/11-12 it was milder with rain and mixed events. Around 1/5 there was a system that trended colder resulting in about 5 inches imby. Right after that it got cold. It was cold and dry for weeks until the JFK inaugural storm in 1961. That was bookended by another great storm-bigger and meatier 2/4/61. That was the end of the cold pattern but we had 7 weeks of fun. Hopefully cold and dry yields to cold and stormy.