It's at least felt like winter since late November. We avoided the two wipeout cutters we had on Thanksgiving and Christmas last year that essentially rebooted the winter to start from scratch. That alone has made it feel more wintry overall even if the averages are behind. It's also helped that the valleys around here have decent snow cover. Keeps it from having that jarring feeling of driving down out of Randolph Hill and it's bare grass everywhere.