Question: What is the normal snowfall for Raleigh?
Answer: Current "normal" values for climate elements are based on thirty years of data from 1971-2000, and for the Ral;eigh-Durham airport the normal yearly snowfall is 7.1 inches. If you average snowfall at Raleigh-Durham all the way back into the 1940s, the yearly average is very close to that as well at 6.9 inches. Snowfall is highly variable from year to year, of course, and there are some years with only a trace of snowfall if any, and a very few with over twenty inches. You can see a graph of yearly snow totals at RDU for the past 50 years on our web site at http://www.wral.com/weather/page/1005530/?showmap=totalsnow.
Feb. 12, 2010 | Tags: normals, past weather, snow, winter weather, wral.com