And that's actually an example of a winter where we did better before the big PV disruption that you see there in mid February. January 1980 was a very cold month (with a historic snowstorm) in the PNW even with that stronger-than-normal PV. That late season disruption did lead to a historic cold shot into the East. Charleston, SC had a high of 26 on 3/2/1980, one of the bigger anomalies you'll ever see. I do think there's a bit of historical over-emphasis placed on the SSWs at times now just because we've seen a couple of them work out favorably for us in the last decade. All things equal we still definitely do want the PV to be weaker and decoupled, but even the full wind reversals aren't always going to work out favorably for us. And other factors can still align more favorably for our region that aren't as reliant on what's going on with the strat.

@snow_wizard did you take over this account?

Even if we don’t get snow it seems like at least we have some chillier weather coming up which would still be nice. Always nice to get negative anomalies even if we don’t get snow with it.

and 1979, though it doesnt go full reversal