Yeah meant 89/90 not 87/88, my bad.
Problem here is if Eastern areas including central LI raked in 12/13, then half the board had an above average winter. So you can't outright exclude cause half didn't. For instance, in 15/16 my area only had average snowfall, so is 15/16 an average snowfall winter for this forum? Half the forum had above average snowfall.
02/03 same thing. Had 4 inches here on the coast. A very good portion of the board had November snow so we cannot outright exclude for the board.
So, in my back yard which is on the coast, half have been good to great and half have been bad to terrible.
The sample size is so small that really nobody truly knows.
I get that weather patterns change and it could be "wasted" too early or too late, but sometimes weather patterns dominant for many months straight like 95/96, 02/03, 13/14 (yes I consider this a front to end winter, although we got shut out in March it was frigid and the storms just missed to the south. Not like we flipped out of a pattern).
Maybe we say November snow is a detriment for only half the board and not bad for the eastern half? So it's really a longitude thing?
Not trying to be argumentive, it's just that I do not live inland so it's not a north and west thing.