This period can't even do boring right....the boring is mundanely unremarkable and not extreme. @Typhoon TipI'll bet we would be challenging seasonal futility records for snowfall region wide if CC were real....literature be damned. The scholarly peers should review that.
That is the last real notch left to get on this shit period's belt for me...consistent shitty seasons, but no real futility contenders like the late 80's early 90s....let's just get that out of the way this year and be done with it.
I remember I was feeling it...I had already made a blog post that was headlined "Severe Winter Storm Likely Around of Just Before Christmas" on the 15th...then went silent until the next on 12/21 "Mild & Rainy Friday Before Slight Storm Threat Just After Christmas".
Brutal to walk that back.
I'll never forget the GEM was the first model to catch on to that December 2022 system phasing with the PV lobe and going west just before Xmas....I laughed at it and dismissed initially, but of course it nailed that.