Knowing its not your fault I will say this, sloppy record keeping at historical COOPs, counting missing data as 0, etc has basically rendered NCDC past snow climo records as useless. The army of weather observers now taking snow measurements will correct that some. Pains me to see national news, researchers, climate scientists use NCDC snow data as fact and then report for (example a just recently seen paper) on the changing snow climo. I screamed in my head based on what? NCDC records of course. You may think some weenie worrying about accuracy is emotional and it really doesn't matter but standardize once a day measurements, or depth when precip change on the board as the standard for all because its confusing as all hell what our Govt wants from us volunteers