Since we have seen a lot of climate change around the world with snowfall being one of them it brought up the question of how snowfall has changed for the Contiguous United States. In this project I was looking at snowfall trends for the Contiguous United States over the last 10 years from 2014 to 2024. Using NOAA’s National Weather Service’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center’s National Gridded Snowfall Analysis to collect the data needed to analyze the snowfall trends for the last decade. There has been a rise in snowfall over the past decade with each year increasing in snowfall amount. Using state boundary lines showed changes in the amount of snow a state has gotten over the last decade. The results have shown that with the uptick in snowfall over the last decade, there are states that do not necessarily get snow are receiving snow like Georgia and Alabama. The effects of this uptick in snowfall can mean that states that normally do not get any snow will receive snow over the following next years. There is also the concern that there will be severe flooding depending on how fast the snow melts and the terrain of the areas that have received snow. Potentially looking at temperature patterns over the last decade will help provide an understanding of the reason for the uptick in snowfall.
