Ok, so we are off track a bit here but curiosity got the best of me and I did a search and found this opinion from a National Weather Service forecaster:
"The water equivalent of snow varies a great deal from place to place and from season to season. The accepted average is 10 inches of snow to one inch of water. In the western mountains...dry powder snow may have a water equivalent of 15 inches of snowfall to one inch of water. Very wet snow can yield one inch of water from 5 inches of snow."
Bottom line is be very glad that we are only getting rain!
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