18/19 got a little lucky around these parts. Was heading for a meh winter before the March snow bomb. There were some fun events that year. The nearly 6" snow event that gave Jay 1.5" of slush at BOS was a rather unique set up away from the water on ESE winds. Then we had that snow to ice here with flash freeze in Jan just before MLK. ORH coldest high since the 50s??
You would have been a disaster on here in 02/03. Very little aside from an earlier December event until early February. Then we cleaned house.
I had a crusty 1-2” at my house and Lowell had like 2’ otg all of January.
That’s Nino climo usually. There are exceptions, but ninos early on favor interior. Sometimes you can get an early event in interior SE MA like Nov 2002 and 2004. Even 2012 had some events in interior SE MA.