So now DT is your end all be all source of fact and truth in weather?  Seems you jump around from source to source, its hard to keep up.  But anyways, you seem to be holding up one piece of a very large puzzle and thinking you have the whole thing.   First, DT's statement about the QBO and ice vs snow seems more him spouting off in frustration (as is his typical MO) rather then a reasonable analysis of the pattern.  Yes the record west QBO has absolutely killed us all winter.  But the REASO