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For me and my location i would define it like this:
Low: below 5 cm
Medium: 5 to 10 cm
High: 10 to 25 cm
Very High: 25 cm and above
The North Sea coast gets rather weak snow amounts, though we get a snow cover in winter during some time almost always (1975 was the only year were no snow cover was present here).
The highest snow cover ever measured here were 37 cm/15 inches on the 31th January 1979
These are my snow recordings from 2006 onwards- our official weather station which is 4 km/3 miles away from my is not manned anymore and detects snow cover only per laser, which can be quite faulty, especially if the snow is blown away through the wind.
2005/2006: Max 21 cm/8 inch (11/03/06)
2006/2007: Max: 7 cm/3 inch (09/02/07)
2007/2008: Max: 8 cm/3 inch (25/03/08)
2008/2009: Max: 7 cm/3 inch (03/12/08)
2009/2010: Max 19 cm/7 inch (10/02/10)
2010/2011: Max 20 cm/8 inch (23/12/10)
2011/2012: Max: 2 cm/1 inch (27/01/12)
2012/2013: Max: 11 cm/4 inch (11/03/13)
For here, around 10" for the entire winter would be considered a lot of snow. Last winter was particularly snowy for this area, yet we only had 7 or 8" in total. We had a 5" snowfall which was apocalyptic if you believed what people round here said about it.
Lol.
We get like 6 inches in one snowfall quite often.... That isn't even that much in a global scale.
"Snowy" to me is a state of having snow on the ground throughout the winter and (typically) snow falling most days in the winter season. If I had to pick an average I'd say 100 inches per year and up is genuinely snowy, anything less than 40 inches is definitely not snowy, and 40-100 inches represents a middle-ground spectrum, where you have a real winter but it isn't particularly snow-filled. These figures are a rule of thumb - depending on melt frequency and the frequency of big snow dumps real-world descriptions will vary considerably.
To me the appelation "snowy" implies something above and beyond an ordinary winter, in that a place that has snow on the ground most of the winter has a winter, but to be described as "snowy" a place would have to have appreciably more snow than a mere "has a winter" situation. Put another way, there is a set of places where you think "it's winter", but there's a subset of these places where you think "it's so snowy" in addition to "it's winter".
High: More than 100 inches (220 cm);
Medium: 50 to 100 inches (110 cm to 220 cm);
Low: Less than 50 inches (110 cm).
/Lived for a brief time in Marquette, MI...they average 113 inches of snow a year!!! Not bad for not being at high altitude.
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no big deal)
OK this is going cause some problems)
we are f-ed, no school or work for a while)
