Anyone else with citrus or sensitive fruit trees that they are caring for over winter? I know my lime won’t like 35° and can see damage from a hard frost, but my fig trees should be good to 12 hours of 25° and fared well out doors over the past year.
A 2010-2011 type winter would be wild after our 2022-2023 winter. 2010-2011 had 310" of snow at lake level and 2022-2023 had 321"
I think most people in town would not like a repeat so soon.
Probably looking at a 3-5 year window with climate change erasing most marginal events.
Id wager that the Seattle metro area goes without a WSW, we don’t see more than three days below freezing with more than three inches on the ground, or a High Wind Watch, all over the next two years.
Sure, a Nina typically portends some regional action, long range forecasts across multiple models have painted a favorable DJF, and our anthropogenically impacted upper atmosphere supports more frequent shots of continentally influenced air masses, but you can only role the dice so many times to get low land snow.