More heavy snowstorms occur in warmer-than-average years
 

On Feb 13, 1:16*am, First Post
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:47:14 -0500, T. Keating
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From:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/Jef...?entrynum=1430

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog
Posted by: JeffMasters, 3:55 PM GMT on February 12, 2010

"A rare Deep South snow event breaks Dallas' all-time snowfall record"

"More heavy snowstorms occur in warmer-than-average years"

"Another interesting result from the Changnon et al. (2006) paper
(Figure 2) is the relationship between heavy snowstorms and the
average winter temperature. For the contiguous U.S. between 1900 -
2001, the authors found that 61% - 80% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+
inches occurred during winters with above normal temperatures. In
other words, the old adage, "it's too cold to snow", has some truth to
it."

Too bad for you that this year, along with the record snowfalls came
record cold temperatures.http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/0...er-roundup-hun...

Which bit of 61% - 80% confused you, I wonder. And does your crystal
ball already give the winter 2009-10 temperatures. If so, please post
the link so I can work out the prospects for ski-ing in March.