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We had a coating of snow Saturday morning and again on Sunday afternoon, but it didn't last long.
Most snow in one day was about 7 inches. I guess that would make our total for the season around 20 inches if you include the October storm. Excluding it, maybe 8 inches.
I think the total is at a little above 30 inches here right now, which is actually somewhat close to normal. There have been small 1-2 inch snows here and there throughout the winter. The problem is that it all melts a day or two later, which has kept the snow depth low. In a normal winter, these small snowfalls would accumulate over time.
Here in IA this is about the weakest wiinter I can remember in the 31 years I've lived here. We've had about 15" of snow and it's been the 10th warmest January on record. We didn't have a flake of snow until mid January. Winter is over in another month so this is going to be a pathetic winter. Hope it's better next year!!!
0Z GFS model run continues its pathetic performance with phasing- shifting the Sunday storm further east again. Also, it is dragging much warmer air northward in the East for the longer range yet again. I don't even understand how this pattern keeps repeating with the level of continuous warmth.
We passed the 30-foot mark today. As of 2pm we've recorded 361.5 inches of snow for the season (for metric folks, that's about 9.2 meters). Current snow depth is 81 inches. We've gotten 11 feet more than the average cumulative snowfall for this date.
The record for Valdez is 561 inches, so we've got 200 inches to go if we're going to break the record, and probably less than two months to go. We can do it, but I'm not as confident as I was a month ago.
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