I'm going to agree with you...
Yet when I was growing up as a kid in the 70's and my teens in the 80"s the winters did not seem that bad.
Something has changed and changed fir the worse
Junk was a bit Harsh.. but it's been poor.
Imho the GfS has outperformed it. Last night's GFS 18z has started the ball rolling with today's poor outputs and The Ecm is following.