Well the 2 LES events this year produced feet of snow and severely impacted travel. The synoptic storms this year have all been lame. I get why they don't "hype" them up. They talk about them like they are. The next few weeks feature chances at real synoptic storms and will likely be talked about in more detail. It's a pretty good pattern for them, something we usually get in march but in february with colder air.