The local forecasts were also quite low compared to what actually fell, especially here in the west. I think in a couple of days it could have settled to be quite stable. The snowpack underneath wasn't deep, but has become quite stable over the last few weeks. Not a crazy amount of surface hoar like before the last snow. And the mild temperatures should give the new (very wind loaded) snow a decent chance to bond. I wish I had paid more attention in school when we were learning how to read and analyse the raw snowpack data from SLF. Huge amount of useful information there if you know how to read it!
Haha, that was part of my masters, all my education up until then was done in the UK. But sure, come on over! (University is really very cheap here, just about the only thing that is...)
The local forecasts were also quite low compared to what actually fell, especially here in the west. I think in a couple of days it could have settled to be quite stable. The snowpack underneath wasn't deep, but has become quite stable over the last few weeks. Not a crazy amount of surface hoar like before the last snow. And the mild temperatures should give the new (very wind loaded) snow a decent chance to bond. I wish I had paid more attention in school when we were learning how to read and analyse the raw snowpack data from SLF. Huge amount of useful information there if you know how to read it!