Usually being zone A means top notch as A is the best. You try to get a grade of A on most things. Not a D. This zone A means: awful, atrocious, agonizing, awfuckthis, and areyoukiddingme.
But it happens. N&W will get to enjoy and thats fine. Got some snow this week. Watching it fall again for a bit will be nice too. The new thread didn't bring it back for everyone. It still needed a souther, diggier, wetter, more jet streakier pointed at Norfolk to be good for lets say Fredricksburg north. Can't win them all.