Looks like moderate is what we want. 2010-11 was moderate and that's the year we had around 4" at Christmas and another 4-6 sometime in January. Also had below freezing highs for nearly two weeks at the house I remember cause I was scrambling to keep pipes from freezing.
That was miserable here. We had 30" of wet, heavy snow in the before-Christmas storm that broke and pulled down thousands of trees. Caved in people's roofs and barns and sheds, and took out power to hundreds of thousands. Ambulances and fire trucks and power company trucks couldn't get through the roads because of the snow and all the fallen trees. People died, quite a few of them. They had to get the big graders and articulated loaders out to clear the roads. There were drifts 10-12 feet deep in the low areas. It took months to clean up from it. Then we got the sub-zero cold set in. Don't really see why we "want " more of that. You can have my share of it.