You can't attribute it to any one cause. It constitutes part of the pattern.
It's been pretty cold. That's the thing people notice. It's not simply the precipitation. Spring has stayed away. You notice it more in the daytime than at night.
There is a standard for measuring snow that you can't measure it more often than every six hours. Because the more often you measure it, the more you get.
We've talked about this whole thing of Eskimos having 31 names for snow. If you live in a dry climate, you probably have 31 names for drought. When you are constantly faced with something, each instance matters.
