Lol I have the weirdest luck with snow events here. Despite being in the PNW for 12 of the last 15 years, my best is probably only like 12" in January 2012, when I lived in Bothell. Runner up, ironically, would be 8" in Vancouver, WA on April 2022. Lived in Seattle at the time and just happened to be house sitting for my mom that weekend. Unfortunately those are the only two times I've actually lived in a location that got more than 6" here when it happened. Lived in downtown Seattle for most of 2013 through 2020, so I don't even remember any meaningful snow events those years. Visited PDX from SEA for a week in January 2017, but went home 2 days before that freak surprise event on the 10th. My mom had like 18" at her house in the SW Hills then. Then I missed out on February 2019 and February 2021 in Seattle by being in PDX both times. Then for February 2023 & January 2024, I was actually living in California for both, but lucked out and just so happened to be visiting the Portland area for both of those events. February 2023 though I was in the one tiny snow hole in the entire metro, Salmon Creek. Got about 1.5" for that event when everywhere more than 3 miles in any direction got 8-16". January 2024 I did luck out at least, relatively speaking, being one of the only areas to get 3-4" of actual snow as we luckily transitioned from sleet to heavy snow for a brief period at right as the moisture dried out at the end of that huge sleet event.

I feel much better tonight.

About the same for me, although I think there was a good 30 inches where I was living in January 1969. The only thing I remember is opening the front door and being amazed how much snow there was. Glad I remember anything since I was only just short of 5 years old. For me anything over 6 inches on the ground is just fine though.

It seems like a strong, sharper ridge on 00z runs, definitely the EURO/CMCE, so a better chance at a cool/cold pool and east winds. I think we'll see the models trend that way even more. Then we wait for retrogression in December.

I started to measure snow when I was about 10. I'm bummed I didn't think about yet in January 1972. From pictures it looks like 16 inches or so.