Yeah... my son braved the horrible driving conditions last Friday to go skiing at Snoqualmie Summit and was disappointed to find it was 35 degrees at the top and the snow was very heavy and skiing was less than ideal. It was 32 in NB when he went through and he assumed it would be in the 20s at the pass. I even told him their web site said 35 and he said that had to be wrong.... but unfortunately it was right.

The "New Normal" as you call it, I guess.

Also another cool thing about that event. Snoqualmie Pass and Stevens Pass never dropped below freezing either. Dew point was around freezing as well. The temp got dragged down to as cold as possible for the setup, and just barely squeezed out snow.

Did history start in like 2013?

Most of our snowstorms only impact a small region. The exception is crazy arctic fronts or really insane overrunning systems. But those are rare. Seattle got screwed in every 22-23 event except for the late November / early December one. No one is denying those were snowstorms. There were just multiple snowstorms that impacted different areas each time. This one was a single event, hence less coverage. Everett and North King County has got some pretty insane snowstorms from convergence zones before. But I guess the area is too narrow to call it a snowstorm I don't think Feb 2023 can qualify as a snowstorm (by their rules) for Portland either, given the small region that experienced it.