Exactly Jerry. Low moisture "fake" snow melts right off. Up here the old stuff becomes glaciated. We still have a layer of Dec snow. So even with days of sun and 40F it takes forever to melt. Also because nights are cold in the spring the pack takes until midday or afternoon to start to feel the melt. I have such great retention. That can be a bad thing come the end of March when you want the pack to melt and it doesn't.
Okay, back to the Euro. Seems like a system is going to give me accumulating snow late tonight. No one around here expects that as they watch the Friday night big storm!