State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the heavy snow we got this weekend bumped up what had been a dry November.
Glisan says the preliminary average snowfall is eight inches for November, which puts the month into record territory.
The average November temperature is 37 degrees, and early on it looked like we’d be well above that.
Glisan says there’s good and bad to having a snowpack. One of the good things is a shallow frost depth.
He says getting more runoff into the ground will help those areas that have been dryer than normal. There’s also a negative to having snow on the ground.
The forecast calls for varying amounts of snow and colder temperatures this week to keep that snowpack in place.
