For someone who has done a lot of reading only since I've been on this site for more than a decade now, I would caution those who look at surface maps of the models in a good pattern that we now know is most likely coming, and say "where's the snow" or "suppression" in the same way we shouldn't take one or 2 model runs that show snow 10-12 days out in a bad pattern and think that'll happen.
Right now the pattern, ensembles, and MJO etc all scream at least some snow. Seeing discrete events or not at this point is not close to the most important thing for those (like most of us), who want snow.