The official
snow total at Syracuse Hancock Airport Tuesday was 19 inches, but to the south and east of Syracuse, 2 - 3 feet fell.
Not exact matches
Official storm
total at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga, including Monday» night's
snow, was 14.2 inches.
In thinking about all the upset caused by this week's blizzard that wasn't, especially all the outrage directed
at the weathermen for making everybody freak out about «historic»
snow totals that got dumped on New England instead of us, I was reminded of the best movie I saw last year: «Nightcrawler.»
That brought the official storm
total at the airport, including Monday night's
snow, to 14.2 inches.
Methodology:
total snowfall is over the period from July - June in areas which average
at least 10 inches of
snow per year.
Alas, I was never there when it
snowed, and we got maybe 2 ″
total in Albuquerque (which
at 5000 ′ in the high desert, evaporates instantly as soon as the sun comes out).
In the Utah
snow I can be sure my feet will be warm and dry
at all times, and I won't slip on the ice and slush... they're a
total winner.
I'm a
total chicken when it comes to heights, but the ride up the scenic chair lift
at Snow Summit was worth the butterflies going crazy in my stomach!
Our analysis examines the heaviest downpours — the days where
total precipitation exceeded the top 1 percent of all rain and
snow days —
at over 3,000 rain gauges distributed across the country over the period 1950 - 2014.
Figure 7 says something about differences in
total fall, and that might argue toward a change in snowfall
at different locations but it doesn't point to an increase in actual
snow fall.
The paper actually talks about
total snowfall, not extent and it does point out that it is autumn sea ice extent that is the important factor, whereas Willis has looked
at total annual sea ice area and
snow extent as opposed to
total fall.
Annual net balance on eight North Cascades glaciers during the 1984 - 1994 period has been determined by measurement, of
total mass loss from firn and ice melt and, of residual
snow depth
at the end of the summer season.
This is expected since a higher proportion of
total precipitation falls as
snow at the higher sites.
CL
at # 45 wrote: «As ice volume decreases, the fraction of volume which is new ice increases, and hence the year to year variability in new ice becomes a larger fraction of the
total ice volume variability, so I don't think the smoothed downward slope will stay as smooth, i.e. you should expect bigger surprises to the upside on a given winter if it is cold and has heavy
snow fall.»
Take a look
at the long - term trends in
total snow for more than 1,100 sites.
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled or delayed
at O'Hare and Midway Airports and
total snow accumulations this morning are expected to range between one and three inches.