Getting a little low level CAA here, but there’s a bit of an inversion aloft. MWN is 0° and 4kft on the autoroad is +6°. So there’s not much of a temp difference as you go from the base to the summit.
Heh...I mean there's a difference between melting posts people like to make to vent and truly believing winter is done. I feel like 99% of us fall in the former category...even DIT.