Sorry but the general public is mostly laughing at the weather channel which forecast changes every 6 hours based off the GFS and you know it. Most of the public uses weather.com and NOT weather.gov to get there weather information. NWS does a hell of a good job!!
I am kind of the opposite in that I would move to the UP / Keweenaw before moving to San Diego. If I was to move to to the SW I would choose Flagstaff AZ: lots of Sun, lots of snow, occasional monsoonal t-storms and not very hot.
01-02 was a horrible winter and IMO much worse than this one. The 80s and 90s had some dreadful ones too. This winter (while lousy for cold) is definitely not in my bottom 5.
I have been at 31F imby most of the event. It did help as snow basically accumulated immediately. I agree with a B/B - grade. The only issue I had was the constant major meltdowns which made skiing horrible around here.
The January storm, the models had a bit of a SE trend within 24 but reality didn't follow suit as the strong storms tend to be a bit on the northern side of guidance. But yeah I would also like to limit changes/trends at this point