Early Winter Onset?

Jerry writes from Indiana:

Here's a classic cold-core low. This thing has been spinning its wheels for the past 4-5 days, giving us gloomy skies and about 2 inches of rain.

I reply:

We need some of that cold-core low action in the West. Specifically Texas, of course.

The cold front that passed through on Sunday was strong enough to give us sprinkles in the Davis/Sacramento area. It takes a HUGE meteorological production to make it sprinkle on September 25th of any year in the Davis/Sacramento area!

The forecasts show signs of an early winter onset in California. Which is just plain weird!