First year model riding?

Excellent. Enjoy it. Looks like the first measurable snowevent of the season came w a bang.

Completely honest question here - when was the last time any one saw a long range forecast, 3-4 weeks or more, that didn't call for above average temperatures? The models didn't even begin to pick up on the early Dec. cold until what, the second week of Nov.?

here's historic data up to two days ago, looking for a forecast https://downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Public/map/teleconnections/epo.reanalysis.t10trunc.1948-present.txt https://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wd52dg/data/indices/epnp_index.tim

Yeah, my dad lives down in pacific and was telling me that a bit ago. They had a decent amount of water in their backyard near the white river but no big deal for them thankfully.