wow...55”...can’t imagine that..and I live in Colorado Springs.
I’m dreading the 3 to 6 inches of snow we are supposed to get tomorrow.
Here, in SW WI, we used to get enough that the *ground* was actually 18”-24” higher by March, from compacted snow and ice. I can recall times in the 70s when the snow was at least 4’ by mid-January.
What we are experiencing, seems to me to be just a reprise of the weather 40 years ago. I do believe everything moves in cycles.
We received four feet of snow here in my town in Northern California one night back in 1969. Woke up one morning and there it was.