IEM Daily Feature
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Just Six Snow Days

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 05:30 AM

The lack of snow producing storm events this winter season to date has been noticeable. The featured chart presents the number of days per season with measurable snowfall between 1 September and 15 February. The total shown for Des Moines this season is just six days and only two days more than the all-time low of just four days during the 1953-1954 season. The simple long term average is 17 days, so we are well below average this year! The side tables show the top ten largest and smallest totals with just two years ago showing up in the top ten. Since snowfall storm events can cross arbitrary day boundaries, you should not construe the day totals as equating snow storms. Additionally, while the number of days is well below average, the actual snow accumulation is not too far from average as one of the events was the massive dump during mid January.

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