A hint of whats to come:

Look at the Arctic Oscillation right now:

What do you see? It is currently strongly positive....and what happens towards the end of the forecast period (the red lines following the black actual number line in the top chart)? It drops! By the end of the month we are back to neutral, and still crashing. It may be more like early to mid-November when the strong cold snap occurs.

And how about that upper-low that will cut off over the central US this week? Check this out:

That's the GFS forecast displayed using Bufkit at 7 am on Thursday, Oct 23rd. It is showing snow (though the snow growth region isn't fully supporting it here) and winds to 40 mph! Wow! And where is this? WICHITA, KS! If this verifies its going to be a very impressive early season storm.