My observation is we get 2 warm-ish winters and then a *normal* one.
But I remember years when the zero and below temps arrived in November and clamped down the entire winter. Events like 19 straight days below zero in November and -35 in December and January.
Hope not to experience that this coming year.
December here was cold as a Hillarys t*t
But after the first of the year, the ground frost left and never returned.
The ice fishermen got just a few days in the bays in late Dec.
Been working outside for 45 years. In our business, 6 inches of frost is a Godsend, compared to mud. 4 years ago, we had 18” of frost.