it's not just CA getting the short end of the snowfall - here in the midwest we are setting temp records almost every day. I've ridden my bicycle to work every day I had time to do it, and that's something I usually only can do 8 months out of the year, even with really warm clothing, since they don't plow all the bike trails I need to take. But no snow.
Season passes for the local ski hill are a drag - their snow making has been fighting the temps, melt for several days, then maybe two nights well below freezing to fix the base, and then it's warm again and you ski in slush on top of ice.
I am starting to rethink my plans for the seasons - maybe I should just drop my April ski tour plan and come out west now to do a Muir Trail under unique conditions. I'll have to make up my mind over the next two days I guess, but I'm 50-50 on the idea.
I know it's probably a once in a lifetime situation right now, but I also know my luck with these things: the moment I get out there the weather pattern will probably shift immediately. So all you snow dancers really just need to convince me to go and try for that January JMT hike and the snow will probably come in hard. It did last March when I wanted to ski, and ended up on the peaks of Death Valley instead to avoid the extreme avalanche hazard in the Sierra
