Remember, this is after all November, and don't let the forecasted PNA pattern in the next 15 days scare you by any means ..
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~gtb/tele/pna.gif
The bottom line is this ... remember 2000/2001? November and December started out how??... This year could end being a complete reversal ...
November 2000-December 2000 Mean

November 2000-December 2000-Anomalies

More specifically - December 2000 (which was the coldest December of record for Charleston)
December 2000 Temperature Mean

December 2000 Anomalies

January-March 2001 Temperature Mean and Anomalies


Bottom line and the moral of the story ... Don't judge the book just by its cover ...