On average since 1948, >10" falls every 3 yrs or so & there's >10" on the ground 3.4 days/yr.

5" falls 1.7x /yr, with 8 days/yr with 5" of snow cover depth.

3" falls 3.8x /yr & there's 3" on the ground for about 2 wks/yr.

1" falls 10x per yr & 25 days/yr there's >1" on the ground.

And here's when the last snows have been in Providence since 1948

Last 10": Mean 1/31, trend 1/26 (50% in 1/4-2/16)

Last 5": Mean 2/15, trend 2/7 (1/12-3/6)

Last 3": Mean 2/28, trend 2/20 (1/30-3/13)

Last 1": Mean 3/15, trend 3/11 (2/17-4/2)

Last flakes: Mean 3/27, trend 3/19 (3/4-4/3)

That footprint is conservative; there were less dense crowds of people throughout Burnside Park & Kennedy Plaza and an unknown number still arriving from Steeple/Thomas/Angell. This footprint is where it was packed enough you couldn't easily get closer to City Hall.

I mean, this isn't a mystery, we know it doesn't do that at all. Two year cycles means the endless campaign and constant fundraising, campaign donors are a relatively wealthy slice of the electorate. It's also why we get so many lawyers, who can draw on the resources to afford to campaign.

Wow! I just today finished a model very like this for PVD, inspired by @smkothuri.bsky.social 's research trec.pdx.edu/news/nationa... I laboriously combined Strava, MDS, and Replica data onto our street GIS, then normalized to align with ecocounter data. If I knew Python it would've been quicker!