-ENSO and -PDO have historically correlated very strongly to our summer temperatures. Until recently.

March 2012, June/July 2012, and December 2021 at a bare minimum were absolutely black swan warm weather events on a large scale in the U.S. Maybe put the same energy into researching the thousands of records shattered from those as you do into these run-of-the-mill cold spells?

I could DEFINITELY care less about lowland snow. Quite a bit, actually. I probably won’t any time soon, though. Especially at Christmas thyme.

FWIW- HRRR and RAP not doing well (overdone on amounts) -- at least in Des Moines area. 6pm .7" at KDSM -- most cam's had 1-2" -- think it's a different story county N.

This pattern started in 1998, however