Five inches!!! Reminds me of my first winter on Mt. Baker in Washington State, 1998-99, when Mt. Baker became officially the snowiest place on Earth. We got maybe a foot of snow in the foothills there, and it did not melt until April...growing up in the Pacific rain coastal lowlands, I had never seen that before...
Is five inches a typical winter for you there, Tink?
At the moment, we are inundated in our annual Pineapple Express, temp about 40-58*F day and night, torrents of rain courtesy of the jet stream winds coming up to us from the Pacific South Seas.