Big +H5 pattern over the East Coast Oct 31-Nov 1 rolled forward to the following Winter (since the PDO went negative/AMO+ in 1998, 9 analogs):
Since 1993 (11 analogs - Nov-Feb)
Holy sheit!
You have some great stories from the South. I picked apples a few times about 40+ years ago and even then I was an outlier being a non migrant and all. I remember when I went to the office where they call the farmers and the guy called me clean cut. Undoubtedly code for speaks English and not a migrant.