The phrase
"snowfall events" refers to occurrences when snow falls from the sky and covers the ground.
Full definition
With incremental warming, significant fractions
of snowfall events shift to rainfall events.
Characteristics of large
snowfall events in the montane western United States as examined using snowpack telemetry (SNOTEL) data.
The
large snowfall events in Boulder were not associated with cold temperatures, but instead with especially moisture - laden air masses passing through the region.
«But that seems to be true to a greater extent for average snowfall than for the intensities of the
heaviest snowfall events.»
He looked at both average seasonal snowfall and extreme
snowfall events under current climate conditions, and also following projected future warming.
Gage underestimates of precipitation
for snowfall events can be low by more than 200 percent for blizzard conditions.
In general, higher temperatures will result in what scientists describe as «more frequent rainfall events (and) less
frequent snowfall events.»
In particular, over NH land, an increase in the likelihood of very wet winters is projected over much of central and northern Europe due to the increase in intense precipitation during storm events, suggesting an increased chance of flooding over Europe and other mid-latitude regions due to more intense rainfall and
snowfall events producing more runoff.
The return period (y axis; 0 to 15 years) of
varying snowfall events (x axis; 0 to 18 inches) for weather stations during two periods: cold Arctic (1950 — 1989; blue) and warm Arctic (1990 — 2016; green).
He also notes that while this study focuses on percentage changes in the amount of snowfall in
extreme snowfall events, there can be larger changes in the frequency of such events.
Firstly, he claims the Met Office failed to predict snow in 2010, but our 5 - day forecasts accurately forecast 12 out of 13
snowfall events - as you can see in this article.
We used a Wilcoxon non-parametric test for statistical significance in snowfall return, given the discontinuous nature of
snowfall events and no reason to believe variances would be equal between 1950 — 1989 and 1990 — 2016 partitions.