SEASON RELATIVE

2025-26 is Incomplete at this official gauge (19 missing days). Observed snowfall is 180 in, counting gaps as zero — a lower bound, not a confirmed quiet year.

Official gauges only (NOAA GHCN-Daily snowfall and NRCS SNOTEL winter precipitation). Not resort marketing, not OpenSnow, not OnTheSnow. This page uses the NOAA GHCN-Daily station USC00304555.

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Northeast · NY · 2025-26

Whiteface

Inc
Incomplete

Gappy seasons are excluded from the historical sample. We do not paint the zero-filled total as a poor / quiet percentile on the map.

Observed (gaps as 0)
180 in
Median
101 in
Record
170 in · 2000-01
Sample
27 past seasons

Cumulative observed snowfall

Ghost lines are past seasons. Dashed is the median. Band is the 10th–90th percentile envelope. X-axis is day of season, not calendar year.

04590135180NovDecJanFebMarAprApr 30

Sliding the date recomputes the percentile against the same calendar date in past seasons — never a full year vs a partial year.

The station

NOAA COOP south of Lake Placid. The Whiteface summit GHCN record ended in the 1940s.

ID USC00304555
Network NOAA GHCN-Daily
Elevation 1,888 ft
Metric observed snowfall (in)