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Hi - I need to find the snowfall totals for the past 3 years ('05-'06 - '04-05' - '03-'04) - I need the average snowfall, but would appreciate this information year by year - Is there a place on the web where I can find this? I have looked on the search engines, but can only come up with longer term averages (i.e. 10 yr, 50+ yr, etc) - If this information is available to you, I would pick ‘Bountiful UT' as a good estimate for the SLC area - Any reference as to the source of this information is appreciated also - I'm sure that you are busy, so if you can recommend a method for me to do this research personally that would also be appreciated - Brad W.
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Those search engines and trying to find historical climate data are a nightmare. Past weather data is called climate data, that's one part of the problem, like anyone knows that!
Anyway so the info you need is readily available for SLC since we have great records here at the NWS office. It sounds like you need yearly snowfall and average snowfall. The first table with the link on the right gives you the yearly snowfall totals back to the 1929. For example the winter of 2004-2005 only had 27.9 inches. For some reason 2005-2006 isn't on there so let's point you to the right direction for that too.
Ok since snow season for the tables is considered through June of this year we can just pull up the monthly climate table from the month of June. The link on the right will take you to the NWS climate page. When you get there on the left click "Monthly Weather Summary". Salt Lake should be selected and you want to click "Archived Data" and go down to June 2006. A new window pops up and on that climate summary it will have an area for snowfall if you scroll down and it should give you the yearly total for the 2005-2006 winter. It's 46.2 inches, double check though to be sure we find the same info.
The other question is about averages, so the next link on the right side of this page will take you to the table with that information on it. Hopefully this all is easy enough to find now that we've got you headed to the right places. Climate information is hard to locate online so we get a lot of queries about this subject.
Answered by KSL Meteorologist Dina Freedman.
