First and foremost ... Happy New Years everyone.  Significant impacts farther N into central or even northern New England cannot obviously be ruled out at  6+ days, but at this time ( and given the conceptual points below) a  NE PA through SE NE and southern New England are implicated the most.  I feel pretty strongly that these systems ( and there are really 3 in the pipe-line;  7, ~11th and ~15th) are all likely to attenuate some as these date ranges subsequently near.  The reason fo