Winter Likely Getting Started Later this Month

We are receiving indications detailing that the winter cold will begin to take hold starting this month. With the NAO still forecast to go negative and the GFS spitting out a monster storm for the North US with huge cold weather following, one can infer that this is a trending item and should carefully be monitored.
Here's the latest 18z GFS showing the storm system with 500 mb heights.
These are NOT temperatures.