Tbh I have some mild interest in that time period now but we all have to remember last year. Last year on this model that's running now showed about 1000000 winter storms and only the "December storm" worked out. It ran too cold, the heights would be too low (in this case, we'd need to watch the 50/50 low though and see what it does), and it'd modify.
Probably going to have to watch it for at least 5 more days, minimum. I guess some good news in my head there is I did see the GFS win on a CAD solution a few months ago where it showed the CAD for days before it happened, and if the general ideas hold it might get colder.
But for whatever it's worth, the 2004 ice storm I experienced didn't exactly have a cold lead up from what I see in the history. It wasn't very warm, but it wasn't cold either and it still caused problems (although at least in my county the mistake was not cancelling school).