>>2858451The rain concern was why I focused on snow depth. The mean of 1 inch per day means that amount of snow on the ground on any given day from 1920-2025. The 0s in the summer and the 14s (or whatever it was) in the winter account for that. It takes rainfall into account since it's looking at the snow depth.
The Canadian sources for QC that I tried were not useful, so I checked Caribou, Maine:
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=car checked "monthly summarized"
set it from 1920-2026
variable: snow depth
summary: mean
This location is as close to you as I could get.
RESULTS (in linked image):
Since 2014-2015: 5.5 inches of snow on the ground per day. So they've actually had more snow on the ground per day in these recent 11 years than over the 125 year span.
5.02 inches of snow on ground per day over the last 18 years.
4.98 inches on ground per day over last 39 years.
I used these year span segments since they matched the date segments I'd used in the Madison chart.
CONCLUSION:
The people who live somewhat near you have had MORE SNOW on the ground than usual over the last 11 years, and very slightly less over 18 and 39 years.
REASON I DO THIS:
I am a proponent of reality and hate propaganda. Also wanted to do another region's chart to check if Madison is an outlier. I'll probably do more for other parts of the country to see if Madison, WI and Caribou, MN are outliers.
