Some observations on snow-reports in New England

Snow-reporting in New England is used in this paper to refer to reports of snow-conditions for winter sports primarily, although such reports are also of service to highway engineers, long-distance shippers, and power-companies. Stream-flow and even floods are less dependent on snow-accumulations than on occasional torrential rains, and differ thus from Western conditions. Since snow-depth, its quality, and distribution vary extremely from place to place in New England, as well as from day to day and hour to hour, many agencies such as railroads which run “snow-trains” have been receiving and publishing snow-reports for several years. These reports are carried by most metropolitan and local daily papers, as well as by special publications like The Ski Bulletin published every Friday in Boston.