In what was a lackluster winter season regarding outbreaks of very cold weather and organized winter storms on the Plains and across Corn Belt, in other sections of the country, and namely in the West and across the South, it was a classic El Nino-driven, textbook winter season, with frequent bouts of moisture and wide-ranging temperatures.
Precipitation over the West and across the South was enough to improve dramatically dry or drought-ridden conditions. For only the second time since 2015, above average amounts of snowfall were noted across the Sierra ranges of California, with water…
