Keith,
Later in the season it has been getting so cold that people who live in my area, have had frozen water lines in their homes, and come to my place to get water during these times.
Ryman Gun Dog
L.C. Smith Man
Up my way, we call that not insulating your home properly, not a problem with the weather. LOL
Seriously though, I'm not that far north of PA. And have spent winter's here for most of the 1970's, half the 1980's, all of the 1990's and the last 8 years. And each decade there have been incredibly warm winters, when the snow never lasts more than a week or 2 and others long and cold with plenty of snow.
If you live in an area of snow shadow from one of the Great Lakes, the snow quantity or lack thereof, can be wildly affected by the temp of the lake water and how early, or late, real cold comes. Early, hard cold dumps tons of snow early but then freezes most of the lake surface, drastically reducing later season snow, no matter the temp. A slow decent into cold winter weather can mean little early snow but a ton of late season snow.
The weather guys have a great deal of difficulty predicting what's going to happen 10 days from now. In fact, they are usually wrong. So I don't put much stock in their longer predictions.
