That's the winter I was thinking of, to compare it. Was not present for that great winter. Was I jealous.
Seems to me that here are two kinds of "great" winters The first kind is what we are talking about, with mild interruptions, and the second kind is a winter with a prolonged period of snow depth and cold, somewhat like 1960-61, which I also missed, or 1947-48, when I was just 11 years old.