“If it’s warmer, storms produce more rain instead of snow.”
Record snow fall at mammoth mountain:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mammoth-snowfall-20170124-story,amp.html
Exactly, It rained where it normally rains and snowed (heavily) where it normally snows. Deepest snowpack in the Sierra in two decades right now.