Yes I agree. I barely missed those flurries you got in late Dec just to my south in the upstate where your at. I thought I seen a couple tiny ones in the street light that night. I remember 2 cold shots in early January and mid February of 2012 nothing like we had at Christmas this year but a day or two with highs around freezing and that winter was warmer as a whole like you said and when we hit March that year we went straight to Summer. I'm just snow deprived. You know it's bad when we have to bring up 2011-12 into the conversation.
If we had hit the clipper right after Christmas, the late January messy pattern had gotten something or the March sleet storm had can colder I think most would have been fine with this year. If I remember 11-12 correctly outside of a random thing in Feb we weren't really even close. Either way they both were disappointing in the snow dept