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Highland Mills NY now 32.8 after the 2.5 on the 12th.

Cloudy most of today but 90% of the snow cover was gone by mid afternoon. I'm at 600 feet but the hills around me are at 900 feet, when I drove through there just an hour ago, they still had a solid 2 to 3 inch snow cover everywhere.

Do you keep track of the number of days with snow cover?

A very hardy, sun Angle, resistant snow cover for mid April. Max depth here on snowboard was 2.5 inches although the lawn was closer to 3.5 in most spots. The water content with the changes back and forth to sleet had to o be at least .60 I would think, which I'm sure is part of the reason we still had a sold snow cover this morning, despite the late August equivalent sun angle. I have to add this to my notes for next February when inevitably someone brings up increasing sun angle for an event. Final season tally now at 32.8 inches with 51 days of snow cover. Much better than last year with similar snow total 30.6 inches but half the days of snow cover last year at 26. Having normal cold this winter, at least until the terrible March ending, was nice for a change.

The most surprising thing about this storm is how little snow has melted in 24 hours considering it's the middle of April. I ended up with 2 1/2 to 3 inches of snow on various parts of my property I ended the day yesterday With about the same snow depth. I wake up this morning to about 2 inches of snow on the ground. What happened to that sun angle that some people start to talk about in the middle of February? I would think the middle of April it really would've done a job yesterday even with a cloud cover. Same sun angle in the middle of April as late August.

Higher totals in interior SE NY.

Looks like finishing up the last batch here. Totals look to stay at 2.5 inches. If we didn't get those couple of changes to sleet this would've easily been a 4-5 inch event here.

2.1 inches as of 7am with 3 inches on the grass, down to 31 and snowing heavily again. Big accumulating flakes. Mid winter look outside on April 12th.

32 degrees moderate snow. Looks like 2 inches so far but won't tame an official measurement until 7:00.

32 degrees with snow, moderate to heavy in Highland mills Orange County. Eyeballing 1.5-2 inches. Driveway covered. Starting to stick on side roads.

Any way to do both? I know you obviously understand the difference, but I'm not sure everyone gets the difference between a six inch calendar day and the time period between six inch events, overlapping midnight. The same for four inch events.

Isn't this list somewhat misleading though? Isn't it just calculating calendar days with less than 6 inches of snow and not events? Couldn't the same event have 5 inches of snow through midnight and 5 inches after midnight for a 10 inch storm total and this list would still count that as consecutive days without a six inch snowfall?

I might be confusing the years but wasn't that the March that had 8 consecutive days of 80 and above in Chicago? I believe for them that March ended up warmer than the following April.

I'm officially calling an end to the snow cover today. Shaded areas still holding out tough but full sun areas are done. With only 30.3 inches of snow so far this season there have been exactly 50 days of solid snow cover. Would have liked more snow, but the temperatures were average to slightly below so the Winter gets a C in my book so far for the 50 days of looking like winter, and the White Christmas as an added bonus. It could still grade out a B but that would take an above average snowfall March, right now that doesn't look likely. Looking back this winter is very similar to 2021/22. We had 34.8 inches of snow and 53 days of snow cover, that winter.

I will most likely call an end to the snow cover in my neighborhood by the end of the day tomorrow. Doubtful we get through the day above 50% coverage. Even this stuff couldn't last for ever. The last couple of days put a serious dent in it.