View from Charlottesville about 500ft up looking Northwest on Monday afternoon. Love it when the Blue Ridge are frosty like this, almost looks like Denver if you squint hard enough.
If you take the 10:1 maps as gospel, sure it might've looked like that, but Richmond was never getting 8-12" on any model if you looked at the details. You were in the mix zone for hours. That all gets counted as snow.
Approaching an inch, although I missed the first 1/4" so we're probably there. Didn't get my snowboard and camera out until 5:30. I'm doing a time-lapse of the storm I'll post here later
Mostly the latter. Temperature differentials across latitudes is at the core of weather across the globe. With the warming not being uniform I think it's fair to expect the relationships to change from what they have been in the past. I'm not an expert on ENSO state or it's specific atmospheric effects though so how/what the downstream effects might be is beyond my knowledge
The high latitudes are warming much faster than the equator so I think it's more likely to disrupt what we know as the base state than to give us more regular Nino conditions.