We've only officially received a whopping 1.7" of snow so far this winter season and with mild temperatures in the forecast for the next several days this snow drought will continue. This has caused a few people to wonder if there's ever been a 'snow-less' winter. Looking back, we've never had a winter season where no snow has fallen. However, as little as 1.3" fell all the way back during the 1906-1907 season. Some of you may even remember 2002-2003 where we only received 8.0".
This mild winter comes on the heels of some pretty cold and snowy winters. In fact, the last four of them have been major snow producers. On average our winter months (December, January, February) should produce 29" of snow. Will we make it to 29"...we would need some pretty hefty systems to bring a lot of snow and at least in the near term it doesn't appear that we have any in the works.
We're not the only ones who are suffering from a snow drought. Roughly only 20% of the U.S. is covered with snow. It looks like another cold front will come through late next week with an area of low pressure to our south. It has yet to be seen if that low makes it far enough north and if it does how much precipitation will fall as rain and how much will fall as snow. If this pattern holds this season may end up going down in the top ten list of the least snowiest winters.
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