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Well, I did create this thread 4 years ago, which happened to be a pretty devastating year for PNW snow pack. However, neither that terrible year 4 years ago or this past epic year alone are worth making presumptions about global climate trends upon.
What is valuable for detecting climate changes and trends is the 2006 article's compilation of empiricle data. IIn the scientific world you don't observe something happen once or twice, call it a law, and write a book about it as though it were irrefutable. Imagine if it happened to snow in your yard in August this year in the lower 48. Awesome, right? However, would you expect it to do the same the next year, and the year after that? That would depend...if you looked at the past 50 Augusts and noticed that it was rare, and becoming rarer as time went on, you would probably not get your hopes up for the same thing to happen the next few years. However, if you are ignorant of statistical trends, or retarded, you may see it snow in August, and expect that to happen every year.