On another note (A--which in fixes do is la..la nina, lol).....Now, I got ridden pretty hard for kinda dismissing this winter as another mediocre la nina for my yard. And...the first week of January, it looked like my prediction was gonna fail miserably, lol But lo and behold...by snowfall amount, the nina did exactly what I thought it would! 13-15" through mostly WAA events, with closer to the beaches having a better shot! I mean, on paper, that's just like 2017-18 to me.
But I realize that we can have different circumstances produce equal results--like the 18" of 2017-18 being from literal 1-2 inchers striking at rush hour, and a rare March pasting of a few inches,! Whereas this year it was made of one active yet underpeforming week...(for my yard and n/nw) and then 1 or 2 nickel and dimes, lol
But yet the NS was still dominant and progressive, and we didn't have blocking (I do wanna look up Ninas and whether ENSO correlates with blocking, though). Now someone can correct me on whether the ENSO state was the reason for our woes, or whether there were other non-related reasons.