Dare I Say,"Mild Winter?"

1-25-12 SHORT HILLS: A couple of warmish days after the rain and the snow is gone except remnants of the plow piles in the driveway. The forecast is generally mild for the next week but for a possible wintry mix later this week. We are more than a month past the winter solstice and this winter is so much milder than the last one—but there’s a month to go. Vermont tomorrow.