During the study period, total evapotranspiration (406 mm) was slightly greater than rainfall (389 mm), with later snowfalls creating excess moisture in the atmospheric water budget.
Volcanic ash deposits from the volcano were identified through an airborne radar survey, buried under later snowfalls in the Hudson Mountains, close to Pine Island Glacier.
The federation chose the Italian venue after the race was abandoned because of strong wind at St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Dec. 11 and called off six days later after heavy snowfall at Val d'Isère, France.
In many places from the Northern Plains to New England, the first snowfall came later than ever, as did the first freeze.
It was snowing across the region from New York to southern New England on Friday morning, with the heaviest snowfall expected later in the day.
It will be beautiful as it falls and magical as it dusts the ground, and seconds later, New York's next snowfall will be an urban nuisance, slipping your step, burying your car and lining your curbs with the slushie of doom.
The Met Office says a second band of snow showers may work its way into Wales from south west England later bringing renewed heavy but intermittent snowfall.
The heaviest snowfall was forecast for later in the day into Sunday in the Massachusetts Berkshires, the Litchfield Hills in northwestern Connecticut, southwestern New Hampshire and the southern Green Mountains.
It was canceled after a 36-inch snowfall.
The segment ended a minute later with a joke about the day's snowfall in New York City.
