but it never felt like a classic El Niño
The autumn leading up to it wasn’t that warm. Even December wasn’t that warm until we got to that last week and a half.
I mean, I say that with a grain of salt because everything is warm now.
Then, when we got to January, any of the El Niño bag of tricks, kind of sputtered out.
You could see where the big storms were supposed to be. The pattern was there, but in each of the cases, the cold air just wasn’t in place or available, and it ended up being a 2-3 inch type of thing.