# How much snow do you get? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297 "2003-12-11T06:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297/21 "2003-12-13T17:31:29Z")
Currently about 6-7 inches on the ground here with some snow drifts of 2ft - 3ft. Oh yeah, and High today was 11 F. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297/22 "2003-12-13T18:05:29Z")
I live in the metro Boston area. We usually get about 32.6 inches of winter snowfall but last winter we got 60.5 and that is only measured to the end of February. We got more snowfall in March. The latest Nor’easter dumped about 28 inches in my town. [Cite](http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/winterStatsBIG4.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![gruelin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@gruelin1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gruelin1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297/23 "2003-12-13T18:42:18Z")
here in portland or, we get a few inches a year. Sometimes it is enough to make a soggy snowman. ---
**Author:** ![gyt\_fx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@gyt\_fx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gyt_fx)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297/24 "2003-12-13T22:18:41Z")
Centralia, WA (20 minutes south of Olympia). We get about rain 3/4 of the year probably, and usually less than 5 in of snow annually the past few years. Terrible Terrible place… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297/25 "2003-12-13T22:22:07Z")
Snow? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297/26 "2003-12-13T22:35:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by improbably blonde \* > \*\*San Jose CA got snow at sea level the first day we arrived. And I haven’t seen it snow for the next 30 years, although the surrounding mountains of course get impassible. \*\* To elaborate on Bay Area snow – we’re surrounded by hills and low mountains (2000 ft or so), and every year a particularly cold rainstorm will also produce snow down to the 2000 ft level. And on that day, every local news station (see the thread about local news…) sends a crew up to the hills to get footage of kids scraping together snowballs. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297/27 "2003-12-14T00:18:12Z")
Springfield, Illinois gets 23.1 inches of snow per year according to [this page](http://www.city-data.com/city/Springfield-Illinois.html). It’s been snowing all day, and there’s maybe 2 inches on the ground as I type. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-snow-do-you-get/218297.md?page=1)