Hopefully (probably) resulting in lots of snow in the Sangre de Cristos...Some kind of correlation I read between early good S Colorado snows and good snow here. Looks encouraging in that variable.
To be fair, they did OK on 2012-13 and 2013-14 even though they hosed 2009-12. NAtl blocking and the one-eyed pig...the two variables hardest to predict.
More Bering Sea than AK/NWT proper though...still tending toward higher heights in E AK/Yukon relative to Bering Sea. Let's keep it from getting any farther E though.
Elevation may be a factor. Don't know how much of one because not familiar enough with deformation band dynamics to know how much the surface plays into it, but have seen the same thing with snow squalls dying as they get into the Boston basin