What is winter? It was pretty non-existent in southern New England this year. Had a 70º day in January, already hitting 50s and 60s on a regular basis. Nothing on the ground to melt. Just about every storm was snow to mix to rain, or in the opposite direction.
I went to a spotter refresher class last night and the met who taught it was all excited when he moved here a couple years ago (from TN via WA) to experience New England winters. He's bummed that we've had two duds. I told him we got 10 years of snow in 2015 so it'll be a while...
Go a few hundred miles north, though.... And apparently it's a thing that when we have a non-winter, Newfoundland gets clobbered.