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Curiosities: Judging snowfall totals depends on your memory

Q: Are winters getting less snowy?

A: “That depends on how long your memory is,” says Scott Bachmeier, a research meteorologist with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at UW-Madison. “If you were here through the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, those were some pretty snowy decades, and if we compare these years to those years, yes, we are in a snow drought.”