The featured chart looks at the accumulation of snowfall events and totals relative to the season average of each. For Des Moines, today is about the half way point for accumulating both snowfall metrics. This means that typically we have seen half of our total snowfall events and half of our total snowfall by this date in the winter season. There is a subtle difference in the plot between the two lines, which is interesting to note. The events accumulate faster initially and then the snowfall total catches up. The reason is that the snowfall events during the first half of the winter are of lesser magnitude, on average, than the events that happen during the later part of the season.

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