<p>I know Ithaca gets a lot of snow - like 125 inches - but in what months is the snow actually on the ground in substantial amounts? (For some reason this has been bothering me.)
Thanks.</p>
<p>I live about 45 minutes away from Ithaca, and the snow is never really that bad in the later months of the year (November, december). It starts to pick up in January and February... that's when you're most likely to get a big storm and over a foot of snow. Generally, there's a layer of snow on the ground from mid december until mid to late March, then it starts to melt an everything's all muddy and the grass is dead and everything, it's quite a sight.</p>
<p>Coolguy, where do you live? Does it not snow there?</p>
<p>it's closer to 60.</p>
<p>See here for data:</p>
<p>more info:</p>
<p>125 sounds more like a so-so ski resort. By comparison, Mountain Creek in Vernon, NJ (elev. @ peak 1480') averages 65" a year.
From: <a href="http://www.mountaincreek.com/mountain_info/mountain_statistics.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.mountaincreek.com/mountain_info/mountain_statistics.htm</a></p>
<p>Cornell is only elev. 1099'</p>
<p>I live in Southeastern Pa...we get our fair share of snow but it doesnt really linger for our temperatures are rarely below freezing for more than a few consecutive days.</p>
<p>Since winter break runs from the teens of December to the twenty-somethingeth of January usually, you miss out on a whole month of the worst weather (I go home to florida :D). That effectively narrows winter down to 2 months (feb and march), plus 1-2 weeks (depending on if youre back for rush week) in january, and 1 or two weeks (maybe) in april. So the hardcore winter, i.e. snow on the ground, is pretty much 2 to 3 months in total. This year, for example, the snow was all melted by the first of april and never came back.</p>