good info. I do think we will have good years again. for BWI and DCA...essentially the 95 cities I can see feast or famine for a number of reasons UHI low elevation yada...but the fact that locations well west of there but east of the upslope zones are also getting shut out seems like the bigger story. If the SER is being enhanced by the warmer Atlantic then undoing that might be a tall order. So this new base state as many have mentioned is really concerning. It will snow again but the conditions it takes to get snow are becoming more of an anomalous pattern situation. The regular base state patterns that worked in the past here in the MA might not in the future as things are seeming to prove themselves as the models get closer and see the impact of the SER. I know there is more at play than that but if we need a -EPO+PNA 50/50 -NAO to even have a chance at frozen its gonna be long periods of time between winter weather. there is enthusiasm about el nino but if you without the cold/blocking/SER mitigation its just a wet/warm pattern with active southern jet. That's what is spooking everyone. just my 2 cents