Update

8:30 pm:

One of my students, who is a trained spotter and is on a career track to become a meteorologist, is keeping a running spreadsheet of his snowfall totals at the following website:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApGucHdcvozHdHg0eGhubjdiQTY1eGpFRks0WHNlQ2c&output=html

He lives in Peru and has been getting between 1 and 2 inches per hour for the past two hours. His snowfall total so far, as of 8 pm, is already 7.3 inches.