Maybe I'm wrong but I only remember 1 that was like that, and it was last winter. In most other cases, we knew wintry was going to happen, but it was a question of where and how much, some going right down to the wire, Christmas 2010 and 1/28/14 being the ones to really do that. Still remember my grandma saying I think we have one inch of snow already that Christmas morning.
Wasn't one of the better Christmases family wise though, and I've talked about that already. My aunt's boyfriend gave us food poisoning, while they're on much better terms now, the day after that Christmas, my aunt got into an argument and fell out with my cousin's wife for a while, and that was when my allergy to a certain type of fleas was at it's worst and because I had bites on both eyelids, we left a day early.
The only two cases that felt pretty set, although I could be wrong, was January 2011 and that monster ice storm in February 2014.