There was no dry air interaction at all last night, just fairly weak attempts to get things isothermal with a moderately chilly air mass.

I'm just sure on what basis one can predict a series of duds. I know Phil is super well educated on such matters, but our winter weather patterns have always seemed to operate on these sort of random ebbs and flows. There are very few long dud stretches the same way there are no really long cold/snowy stretches in our modern historical record. I'd be really interested to revisit the scientific explanation supporting the assertion we're entering/in a unusually bad period. The only big macro trend that seems a bit disconcerting is our recent difficulty seeing arctic air drive south. But that's always been a challenge for our region and it's not like the arctic air has been perpetually held up in the north. Feels more like bad luck to me.

NARRATIVE KILLERS

That nugget of post-Niño greatness had to be earned. Came after the dumpster fire that was 1991-92. Same with 2016-17 after the two piles of crap that preceded it.

First flakes of the season at 38F. Proof it can snow above freezing. Just not gonna stick