The Global Warming Crowd are going to milk this one for all its worth. This is their “Reichstag Fire”.
But if you mention that it snowed in normally snowless Orange County, Calif. last March, they will tell you that you are talking about weather, not climate. So let's throw that back at them and not let them have it both ways. A unique situation in which two phenomena unusual for the area--a hurricane and a high pressure ridge--come together is a weather phenomenon unrelated to climate.