Nostalgia has a funny way of making things seem like they were worse (or better) than they are today. When it comes to snow, your memory may be more right than you think.
Averaging out yearly snowfall and graphing that by decade shows wild swings in the amount of snowfall the Cincinnati area gets, according to data from the National Weather Service.
If your formative years were in the 1970s, you'll remember the city getting an extra 10 inches of show each year than a Cincinnatian growing up in the 1980s.
So if Indiana Jones was on your lunchbox, you saw about a third less snow on average than someone who was more likely to carry a lunchbox of the Fonz.
But the snowfall bounced right back in the 1990s.
The National Weather Service snowfall data reliably goes back to 1920s, which is the lowest decade on record for average yearly snowfall with 14.59 inches a year. The 1970s had the most with an average of almost 27 inches a year.
The blizzard of 1978 helped to bump up that average. During late 1977 and early 1978, the city saw 53.9 inches of snow fall, but for a few years before and after the blizzard snowfall totals were equally impressive.
There were also a few years with barely any snow. In 1928, 1932 and 2012, Cincinnati had less than 6 inches of snow; the lowest three years on record.
So far this season, the city has seen about half an inch of snow, according the weather service. Most of that was recorded Thursday.
We will have to wait awhile to add to that total. No more snow is being predicted in Cincinnati for the next seven days.
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