DinosaurDied t1_j30ih5e wrote on January 5, 2023 at 5:18 AM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in anyone else miss the snow? it's currently 35°F and raining. by mossybishhh

Wait really?? By what metric? There are plenty of micro climates out west that avg 500+ inches of snow a year.

I imagine California has more snow in the sierras than all of VT at a given time also.

[deleted] t1_j30ioep wrote on January 5, 2023 at 5:19 AM

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Steevsie92 t1_j31jwkd wrote on January 5, 2023 at 12:38 PM

Must have something to do with snowfall over a percentage of a states total land area or something super specific like that. All the listicles that cite that ranking are pretty vague about how it’s determined, and the numbers they use seem to completely ignore entire mountainous regions, which easily dwarf the entire state of Vermont in total land area and receive way more snow even on a bad year.

JaimeGordonLannister t1_j31vty6 wrote on January 5, 2023 at 2:17 PM

Even without looking at mountainous regions, the lake effect regions -- Buffalo NY, the UP of Michigan, NY's North Country -- get insane amounts of snow. But they're also relatively warm, for snowy regions, and the snow melts pretty quick, even after multi-foot snowfalls. So maybe Vermont ranks well because it gets a decent amount of snow that sticks around for a long time? I still don't believe VT gets more snow than Leadville or Silverton or even Tahoe.

Steevsie92 t1_j31wsls wrote on January 5, 2023 at 2:24 PM

Yeah could be an average snow depth across a percentage of land area.

> Tahoe.

Can confirm. Lived there for 7 years and had multiple seasons where the snow totals were over 800”. I so wish anywhere in the northeast was capable of that because it would make choosing where to live so much easier.

Edit: Even snow depth doesn’t track because most articles put the snowfall number around 90” and there definitely isn’t a 7 foot deep average snowpack over most of Vermont. I feel like this is something that one blogger made up, and the rest took it as gospel.

DinosaurDied t1_j33ixqf wrote on January 5, 2023 at 8:23 PM

Well a simple google search also told me earth was flat but I know that’s not true because it contradicts others facts.

Like the fact that even the high desert states like Wyoming could contain more snow at a given time, not to mention mountain ranges….

So whatever that statement is based on is using some creative metrics.

Biggest one is the fact that eastern Snow doesn’t stick around nearly as late either…. There are literal glaciers out west that never melt, even in Nevada.