It's October 27, 6:00 AM, and 49° outside... heck, we have cooler mornings than that in July‼ All the predictions for our area have been for a warmer than normal winter... some of them say much, much warmer than normal. With the strong El Nino settin' up the way it is we're likely gonna' stay warmer than normal all winter, and likely slightly below average precipitation. That's just fine with me; cold snowy winters are nothin' but a huge expense. But there is a down side... warm winters often bring less snow and more ice storms... ice storms suck‼
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According the 2016 Farmer's Almanac, central US this time will be normal to warm this winter. What you've got is pretty much following the Almanac's predictions:
http://farmersalmanac.com/weather-outlook/2016-winter-forecast/
quoting:
"According to the Farmers’ Almanac, the winter of 2015–2016 is looking like a repeat of last winter, at least in terms of temperatures with unseasonably cold conditions over the Atlantic Seaboard, eastern portions of the Great Lakes, and the lower peninsula of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, most of the Tennessee and Mississippi Valley, as well as much of the Gulf Coast.
New Englanders will once again experience a very frigid (shivery) winter
Much of the central United States will see near-normal winter temperatures. This includes the western and central Great Lakes, the upper peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, and most of the Great Plains.
In these areas, Ms. Nature will mix intervals of unseasonably mild temperatures with occasional shots of bitter cold; average it out and it comes out–average!"