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How Much Snow Fell in Five Major Blizzards

Regional Snowfall Index Accumulated Snowfall (Select Events)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps of total accumulated snowfall for five selected blizzard events, based on the Regional Snowfall Index.

How it's made. Built by interpolating snowfall reports from the Regional Snowfall Index into continuous maps.

How & where you'd use it. Shows where each blizzard dumped the most snow, helping gauge storm impact and severity.

What's measured

blizzardsnowfall

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1950-11-26 → 2016-01-23
  • Spatial extent-107.293, 31.514, -66.104, 49.765
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Regional Snowfall Index (RSI) accumulated snowfall reports interpolated for five select blizzard events.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("blizzard-snowfall")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).