Perfect weather conditions mean prime powder on B.C.'s mountains

Call it a perfect storm of perfect storms, and prepare for some blue skies: Ski hills across B.C. are experiencing some of the best conditions in recent memory.
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Over on Vancouver Island, staff at Mount Washington are wrapping up their response to a record snowfall — including three metres in only four days — that pushed them to tops in the world for ski-resort snow depth, with a 520-cm base as of Monday.

Just Another East Coast Blizzard | Watts Up With That?

...He had to be joking, right? There is no way a “director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm” could possibly believe the weather we are experiencing out here on the east coast is in any way different from the past. One need only look through past issues of the New York Times itself to debunk that idea.

I went to the archives section of the newspaper and did a simple headline search on the word “blizzard”, then scanned through the oldest articles first looking for references to blizzards in New York City. A blizzard in mid-March 1888 immediately jumped out as a particularly memorable storm.