Just two days into meteorological winter, several winter storms and lake-effect events have already brought significant snow to The Land. How much snow? Nearly 10 inches as of Dec. 2.

To put this into perspective, there have been just 16 winters in the last 86 years of record-keeping that had more snow at this point in the season. That puts this winter in the top 20% of snowfall so far to date.

What is the average? 5.1 inches. So, Cleveland is already more than four inches ahead at this very early stage of winter.

What happened for the rest of the winter in those other 16 winters? Wildly different endings. Only 10 of the 16 winters ended with above-average snowfall. The other six ended with below-average snowfall.

At first glance, there is little correlation between the amount of s

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