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Article: Prediction: A wetter, whiter winter is ahead

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Fact or fiction: In Roanoke's biggest snow months on record, snow usually makes up more than half of the total precipitation for the month.

January 1996 is generally considered the last really big snow month for Roanoke and most of Southwest Virginia. The Star City got 28 inches of snow that month, with 2 feet of it on Jan. 6 and 7.

Melted snow equaled 2.67 inches of liquid at Roanoke in January 1996; rainfall totaled 4.2 inches. In that snowy month, rainfall was about three-fifths of the month's precipitation total.

January 1966 is still Roanoke's snowiest month on record with 41 inches. But it also rained more than 4 inches than month, while melted snow totaled 3.28 inches.

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