PSA:
The NWS always appreciates observations, especially detailed observations that everyone on here is capable of giving. That can be done thru Twitter, as they often set up a feed for that, or the mPing app. That can include final snowfall amounts, when the snow starts/stops, precip type, dew point, etc
This helps them with short term forecasts as well as future forecasts as they can learn from them. A few years ago they had a freezing rain advisory for Leavenworth, but I notified
Yeah interdecadal variability makes it a little tricky, but if you compared the last 20 years to the 1950-2000 average I think you'd probably get a plot that looks fairly similar to the trend plot. There's no doubt that winter snowfall is declining across most of the country.
The starting point and end point always matter with these trend things.
Parts of the East were miserable for snowfall in the late 1940s to late 1950s. And those same areas did really well in the 2002-2015 period. So if you made a trend from 1950 to 2010, it would look way better for much of the East.
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