Model fatigue is well and truly setting in if @bluearmyand @Met4Cast are on the wane.
For me it's this - do we all chase cold because we want calm, cold, benign weather? Perhaps so given all the rain and flooding recently. But I think for most of us it's because we want snow, and for many of us our greatest weather memories are 1979, 1982, 1987, 1991, 2013, 2018 to name but a few. Are we getting snow next week? The answer seems to be yes (although we don't know exactly where), so that's a big green tick
Therefore the models are giving us what many of us actually want. I for one am enjoying the ride, and we are only on 10th Jan!