One thing I've noticed about our new climate reality as compared with when I was younger is that weather seems to get caught in 'holding patterns' for longer periods of time, then when the change in weather pattern arrives it tends to be more abrupt and extreme, instead of gradual. One side effect of this that I've noticed is that comparing present snowpack to historic averages for the same time of year can swing wildly from month to month, going from 200% to 50% or vice versa in just five or six weeks.