As a snow plow driver for over 20 years, I've been stuck in these precipitation patterns plenty of times. There is nothing new about it really..... There have been PLENTY of years where it snowed what seemed like every other day for a month straight. Sometimes a couple inches, sometimes a couple feet. January is always a very grey, dark month. Only difference right now is that the precip weather pattern is landing on us while it's not very cold. Which again isn't really anything new. Our average high temp is about 36 degrees (no snow)

Averages in January mean very little though, the huge swings of being single digit temps one week to being what it is today the next can really screw around with our averages