We haven't had a big January in my lifetime and I am 40 years old...

No offense, but I think you cherry picked a few bread crumbs and extrapolated them into what you wanted. Most long range models have been pretty consistent that our winter would suck until February, which I get is a roll of the dice in the lowlands with increasing sun angles and all. Who knows, maybe January ends up giving us something decent, but it would take a major reversal of trends for that to happen at this point. The NOAA forecast of a below average Jan-March featured an ABOVE average January so we are still on track there. The big winter in the west was 2022-23, some of us recognized that at the time, more are realizing this every day.

Bastardi let us down……….again!

Was checking out snowcover up north. There's been melting of course, but International Falls still has 8" on the ground. Could lose a little bit more before the cold returns for the forseeable future. Let's replenish asap!

85 is a top analog actually as well as 77