Last year I advised all signs pointed to a snowy winter and ultimately, many of the snow records in recorded weather history of Boston, MA were broken:

http://www.weather.com/news/news/new...d-snow-tracker

This year, however, none of the signs point to a snowy winter with the artic ice cap leaving 'stall' period and resuming growth; maybe very rapid growth here will bring on more snow? A weather chart suggested several years of snowy weather often co-occur. One of these had a rainy winter in the center though.

Any thoughts regarding the cause of the 'stall' periods often seen via satellite observation in the "Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph" of this webpage:

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

over the years? The ice growth often seems to stop for a few days.