I was a little kid in Wisconsin, we got two days off of school in a row in early February 1996 due to the cold. I remember we all cheered when it was announced over the loudspeaker. Milwaukee tied its all-time low of -26. I’m sure the wind chill was below -50. Good times.

Pretty sure your winter won’t be 100% snowless.

Yes. I have had a ton of non arctic snow here in recent years. Not sure if the anafront situations are a luck of the draw thing but they seem to be more common farther south. I can’t remember one up here that really stuck out in my mind. Mostly I was being dramatic

Talking NYC specifically, here are their totals since 1999-00. No doubt a number of nice years for them and they've done it by getting some big time storms. But there are some real clunkers in there too, especially lately.

I remember January of 1985. We had snow on the ground and stagnant but cold conditions. Most of the serious cold stayed east of the Rockies. February saw the return of more active weather.