I get the snow-in-the-backyard thing... but honestly, I don't think I'd mind CA/SW winters much coming from lowland PNW winters. Driving to snow is still an option, and for the lowlands... trading 5 days of cold/snow a winter to regularly see the sun honestly seems like a fair trade to me. Obviously cold and snow would still be ideal.

Right, absolutely nothing can.

That's what I liked about that winter actually. Snowfall was more evenly-distributed as opposed to one big event and then the rest of winter being boring.

I guess nothing can happen naturally anymore!

Yeah, we had a week straight of daily marginal snowfalls in late November and early December 2022. The highlight was 2” on the night of 11/30. That entire winter we had like 15 separate snowfalls of trace-2”. I’d take 2022-2023 over many other winters though including 2023-2024.