It's winter, all right, but
we're going through one of those
mild-for-winter,
warm-enough-to-melt some ice,
overcast, raw humid chilly periods.
The evenings are even going to be mild this week,
and the forecast for Christmas Day is grey, warm, and wet,
of all things.
The extended forecast for the week of New Year's, however,
is clear and at-or-below-freezing, a different sort of winter weather.