It's been a very mild winter here in Maine - hasn't snowed in 3 weeks, and what we did have on the ground is melted, except for where it was plowed up. Portland has had to cancel a winter festival scheduled this weekend in one of the parks due to "lack of snow." Arlington, and DC metro area, on the other hand, have had record amounts of snow, ice, and cold - something like 4 feet of snow has fallen in less than a week. We picked a good year to leave! They do NOT know how to deal with winter weather there, even just 3 or 4 inches, and as someone accustomed to lots of snow, it always irritated me...
