Need that trough west of the ridge to calm down

Oooh... sounds like the kind of science project I need to be doing after spending part of last winter explaining to the guy next door that my use of sodium hydroxide was a better weed killer than miracle grow and great for breaking down problematic neighbors.

1999-00 was probably the last time we had no noteworthy brushes with cold continental air for the better part of the entire cold season. There was a little bit of weak Fraser River outflow around the 20th of January and a lot of cold onshore flow in the 2nd week of January 2000, so there still exists potential for this winter to be even worse. Even the infamous turds like 2014-15 and 2002-03 technically managed cold season arctic airmasses.

I think it's gonna be better guys.

There is negligible difference in the 18z as far as accuracy.