Sorry I forgot to reply earlier... Yes I did in fact. It came in the cold postfrontal environment a day after the arctic air left. The only snow I saw last winter.
Another fairly insane 19th century winter, though there was definitely a bit of suppression depression for snow lovers.
First there was a bit of arctic air around New Years that suppressed things down into CA and produced the earliest of San Francisco's "big" snowstorms
https://www.opensfhistory.org/osfhcrucible/2020/12/#:~:text=When it ended%2C the City,snowfall in recorded City history.
Then an absolutely mammoth backdoor blast in mid-January 1883. One of the more bitter airmasses on record in the interior. Spokane hit -28 and Boise set their all-time record low with a nutso -27 (high of -2) on the 18th. Western OR/WA had low 20s for highs and single digits for lows, with bare ground.
Then the pattern reset a bit and dropped another massive backdoor airmass in early February. Portland had a high of 14 on the 5th and it stayed cold for much of the month. February 1883 is Portland's 2nd coldest on record. Unfortunately the jet mostly stayed away and produced only light snows that month. Ironic because as you mentioned, 1882-83 was also the wettest water year on record for Portland with about 72" of rain.
January 11th along with the night of February 14th into the early morning hours of the 15th were the only other times that snow accumulated here, and it wasn't much of course.
During that chilly period at the end of February and beginning of March, I just got some rain/snow mix for the most part. It instantly melted as it hit the ground. No accumulation whatsoever.
@MeatyorologistTotally random question but did you get any snow on January 17th?
I got a dusting of wet snow that even stuck to roads but it seemed to have been heavily localized
I'm asking you specifically since you're also based in North Seattle. Thanks!
Portland had 6 subfreezing highs that February, with a 14/7 day on the 5th! They averaged 33.9 for the month, and that's after a 21/8 day in mid January.