New Snow Record?
Have we broken any snow depth records this year? To answer that question, I plotted March 1st snow depths over the last 20 winters. Unfortunately, low elevation snow depth numbers are scarce so I used data from the Wolf Creek Summit SNOTEL site. The amount of snow in the mountains can approximate the type of winter we experience in town, except sometimes it rains in town when it snows in the mountains (like it did this year). And, low elevation snowpack often melts in betw