In Phil Harwood’s May 2014 Snow Strategy column, “How to use weather data for sales, renewals,” he offered snow management companies several suggestions about what snowfall data to collect and what charts are useful.

Here are some examples he compiled for his home market of Detroit from National Weather Service data.

Example 1: Detroit Seasonal Snowfall History by Year – Chart 1

Example 2: Detroit Seasonal Snowfall History by Depth – Chart 2

For more information on this topic, see “May 2014 Web Extra: How to calculate snowfall probability.“