Up here in New England, we keep track of total snow accumulation in a given winter. Whether you get six inches one day and then six inches the next with no melt inbetween or you get four days of three inches per day and it completely melts inbetween, the total snow accumulation in both situations is twelve inches.
Vermont gets a lot of snow. Sugarbush Farm has been tracking snow accumulation each winter since 1997-1998 when there was a total of 106”. In 2011-2012, there was only 54”. But how much snow is that really?
So these folks took a really tall pole (maybe twelve feet tall) and then stuck blocks of wood marked with the year and the height and put that block the appropriate distance up the pole.
Thank you Sugarbush Farm for really helping us visualize how much snow that really is.
