They were cold…I was a teenager during the 80’s…And while they were consistently cold, the snow sucked 85-90% of the time.
There were a few big ones scattered in there, but it was underwhelming most of the time. Mixing was very common. It was like pulling teeth to get a pure snow event during that decade. 1-3” and 2-4” were very common. 3-6” was a good storm. And the beloved 4-8” was a biggy. of course there was the April Blizzard of 82 which was a monster, and Feb of 83 was big. And 1984 was a decent snow winter. Mid March of 84 had a good 8-10” storm. And then a couple weeks later in late March of 84 there was a pretty big late season snow storm around the 30-31st, which was pretty dam good for that decade.
And as Will said…they were consistently BN. So it just goes to show how this winter has been dam cold.