For me, in winter, I'm looking for snow and just cold enough (which 9x out of 10 that is what happens when it snows here. Super cold snowstorms are always rare in the NJ/NYC area). Whether it melts or not, it doesn't matter too much to me. 02/03 I had 53", 20/21 I had 51", so I'm pretty confident that we will still get big snow winters, which I think we all are yearning for anyway.