In late-December we had thought this warm-up would be in early-mid January and last forever.
We pushed it back to the first week of February, and it's only going to last 5 days.
Is this the first time a can-kick worked in our favor?
I think that the best-case scenario for our end-of-month threat is a 4-8" I-95 and 8-12" NW, almost like a 20% reduction of Feb 11 2014. Once we get into mid-late Feb, we should see some more chances with the AO/NAO flip.
This winter is seeming like a slightly worse 2013-14. Hopefully we can get the snow in March like we did in March 2014.
It's extremely hard to get a really big snowstorm (12+") sometime other than an El Nino.
Expectations should be kept in check for the rest of this season. We got our big-ish one on 1/6. Now we should be take our 1-3" and 2-4" events when they come until we get another AO/NAO flip to negative.
Sure, that may be true.
But was our January pattern really a fail? Sure, maybe for you, but most of Maryland and DC scored. Were we supposed to expect two 6-12" miller As with five additions 1-3 and 2-4" events?