# This winter you're getting 60" of snow
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 4, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910 "2020-01-04T01:09:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/1 "2020-01-04T01:09:00Z")
By some twist of fate, disaster, or perhaps global climate change, you are all going to get the typical amount of snow for a winter in New Hampshire: 60 inches. I’m actually being kind to you, because we’ve had several winters this century that have far exceeded that.
Anyway…given it’s a typical New Hampshire winter, your fallen snow will remain on the ground after it falls. Maybe it doesn’t begin snowing until just before Christmas, maybe it’ll start snowing in early November. Who knows? Your biggest snowstorms can come in January, February, or March, and there’s no telling which month it’ll happen in this year.
And, to make it more interesting (to me) you’ll also have our daily highs and lows too: January 31F/10F, February 35F/14F, March 44F/22F. During the entire course of the winter, there will be two days in the 40s in either January or February and some of the snow will melt then. The rest of the snow won’t melt until March or April.
I’m not mean, so I’ll let you pick how your snow is delivered at least. Bear in mind that snow more than 2" or so will need to be plowed on the roads, which may pose problems for some of you - well, all of you due to needing to get to/from work, but some more than others. Whether or not you plow, snowblow, or shovel your own driveway is up to you.
So, how do you want your 60 inches?
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/2 "2020-01-04T01:12:05Z")
I’ll take 4" every Saturday morning from December to March.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/3 "2020-01-04T01:13:20Z")
> [@TruCelt](#):
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> I’ll take 4" every Saturday morning from December to March.
Sorry, you can’t pick when it will snow, only how much each storm.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/4 "2020-01-04T01:17:10Z")
> [@TruCelt](#):
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> I’ll take 4" every Saturday morning from December to March.
I’m in Florida, I’ll take the same from May to August.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/5 "2020-01-04T01:22:23Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I’m in Florida, I’ll take the same from May to August.
No
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/6 "2020-01-04T01:45:22Z")
Whatever
I spent the biggest chunk of my adult life in Michigan. That is above average for snowfall in the place where I lived the longest but not wildly so. I have also had friends and family live in lake effect snow bands that would giggle at your acting like that was a big deal. You don’t even mention shoveling or snow blowing your roof. 😛
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/7 "2020-01-04T01:54:22Z")
I’m trying not to scare them, **DinoR**! Besides, with only 60" I probably won’t need to teach them how to use the [Avalanche](https://avalanche-snow.com/), which is a lot less fun to use than the videos suggest.
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### Author:  [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/8 "2020-01-04T02:38:55Z")
My central Sierra Nevada location averages 39" of snow and 49" of rain annually. How would I _like_ it? Evenly spaced on weekends. How do I _expect_ it? Occasional pounding by a few atmospheric rivers - more with time. If I were to wish for timely weather, I might as well up the ante and wish for asteroid strikes on a few world capitols.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/9 "2020-01-04T02:39:10Z")
60" is about right for here, sometimes a lot more, due to “lake effect.” I’ll take it in 15 4" storms.
I’ve been in 60" snowstorms. You don’t want that.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/10 "2020-01-04T02:52:18Z")
I’d love the full dump, looking forward to it.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/11 "2020-01-04T03:01:21Z")
If they all must be equal in size, I think I’ll take 6 ten-inch storms. I love snow storms, I don’t mind shoveling, but I think I’d start getting sick of shoveling up big piles of snow after around the fifth time. So it was between 10x6 or 12x5 for me, and I went with 10x6. Driving sucks but, oh well, don’t care. I like snow.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/12 "2020-01-04T03:39:57Z")
All at once. Get it over with, we’ll get out of it in about 2-3 days and then can have a normal life the rest of the season.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/13 "2020-01-04T03:50:16Z")
Split it up, spread it out, vary the amounts, surprise me.
Can I have some -15 F days too? I miss those.
It would be nice if you could keep it from freaking _melting_ and turning into yucky muddy slush the day after. Let it sublimate slowly. Or get more snow on top, in layers.
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/14 "2020-01-04T04:00:35Z")
I think I’ll take twenty three-inch storms.
That’s about once a week on average; so there’d still be a lot more days of not snowing than of snowing. But with only 3" arriving on any one day, there’d never be enough to be a huge amount of work to shovel. And there’d be plenty of time to rake it off the greenhouse roof before it accumulated enough to threaten to bring the greenhouse down – even if all twenty days came in succession, I could still just rake it every day or two.
Highway crews around here should be able to handle 3" at a time without any problem, also.
And that temperature range, with a two-day January thaw, is about what we used to get around here say forty years ago. It would make a nice change to have it happen again – actually much better for perennials than these repeated multiple-day stretches of 40’s and 50’s occuring through the winter, interspersed with some actual winter weather on an entirely unpredictable schedule.
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/15 "2020-01-04T04:07:07Z")
Given that my town has never had a snowstorm in the history of ever (my Dad reports once seeing a light sprinkling on some of the hills in an outlying suburb), I think it better be sixty lots of 1. Even a five inch storm would probably shut the whole town down and cause chaos and mayhem.
the temperature thing would be interesting, but I’m up for it. Are we starting right now, or would you give me a six-month deferral?
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/16 "2020-01-04T05:03:23Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#):
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> the temperature thing would be interesting, but I’m up for it. Are we starting right now, or would you give me a six-month deferral?
It’s summer there, right? If so, you can have until winter typically starts in your area.
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/17 "2020-01-04T05:53:20Z")
My kids will be over the moon. At least for the first three or four falls…
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/18 "2020-01-04T06:19:30Z")
Sixty 1-inch snowstorms. I drive a SmartCar and it would be utterly immobilized by any significant snow.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/19 "2020-01-04T07:15:56Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#):
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> Even a five inch storm would probably shut the whole town down and cause chaos and mayhem.
If you’re not used to driving in snow and ice, even 1" will cause chaos and mayhem.
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### Author:  [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2020, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-winter-youre-getting-60-of-snow/845910/20 "2020-01-04T08:08:34Z")
Vary it. And keep it cold! There are too many bugs surviving the winter and there are spring flowers (forsythia) already blooming.
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