Why isnt it snowing

Rain that doesn't make it to the ground is called virga. Below is a graphic showing a cross section of a saturated environment with rain intersecting a dry air mass. The deeper into the dry air mass you go, the less chance the rain has of reaching the ground. The radar will still detect the rain aloft, but you may not see it at the surface. This scenario is one reason why it is hard to break drought conditions once they set in. Rain that you do get is reduced because of the dry air in place.

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It may seem counterintuitive, but more snowfall during winter storms is an expected outcome of climate change. That added moisture means more precipitation in the form of heavy snowfall or downpours. During warmer months, this can cause record-breaking floods.

But during the winter — when our part of the world is tipped away from the sun — temperatures drop, and instead of downpours we can get massive winter storms. Winters in the U. This wintertime warming trend is most prominent in some of the coldest areas of the country, such as the Northeast and Upper Midwest.

Researchers have found that the pace of winter warming has picked up in recent decades. Between and , winter in the mainland U.