Here is the data I was referring to last night. The 2.9" as of 1/15 is not good but not as bad as I feared. Here are the bottom 35 snowfall totals for 12/1 to 01/15 at MDT. I verified 2006/2007 numbers were right as a test of the data. The 2.9 would put MDT at 26th place (1889 missing) out of 134 possible places. Really bad but not record setting. 2005 and 2007 both had only T at this point. MDT went on to end up near 30" in 2005 and low 20's" in 2007.
I wonder if expected conditions has anything to do with that...re: if I were a skier and I went to Whitetail I would expect "local conditions" whereas if I went to Killington in Vermont, I would expect much more.
I really have not noticed any post suggesting winter is over....beyond suggesting there is not much in the table in the near term. But what happens second half of winter does not change what has happened first half. Second mention but I think the fact that all 2.9" of snow lasted less than 12 hours (except plow piles) after falling is the real indictment on how bad it has been.
We are under 2" here....to me, 2.9" near the midpoint of winter is not much better than 0. In both instances the snow was totally gone at Mdt before the end of the same day.
That puts them at 2.9" for the winter. Not that it matters for the second half of winter but wonder where that falls for first half of met winter historically. Obviously going to be very low on the list but were any seasons lower? Already determined 19/20 was higher. 1/15 is Sunday so not totally out of the question some could be added on.
It seems likely that MDT will not report 2" of snow for this AM so we are still running behind the pace of the 19-20 winter when MDT was at 3.9" as of now. MDT will be 2"+ whatever they report today.