Its been so long sometimes I think we forget what a legit - nao block can do lol.
After the disaster of the long range models/ weeklies of last year ,Ive learned a lesson on not to put alot of faith in guidance of the overall pattern past about 2 weeks. Generally it seems like persistance wins out and patterns always take longer to flip than first advertised. It was pretty amazing that week after week thr Euro weeklies showed a great pattern developing and it just never materilized.
Im also a big believer that luck and randomness play a big part in our snow totals lol