The winter is mild, with comparatively low snowfall, short-lasting snow-cover and low minimum temperatures.
Regions of the park closest to the Gulf of Alaska have a relatively mild climate with significant rainfall and comparatively low snowfall.
The winter season preceding the floods had produced abnormally high rainfall and relatively low snowfall.
Monroe only receives an average of 28.5 inches (72.4 cm) of snow a year - the lowest average snowfall for any large city in the state.
Artificial snow creation is increasingly being used worldwide in ski resorts receiving lower snowfall.
Alaska was ice-free because of low snowfall, allowing a small population to exist.
This is a large variety of scenarios, including bankruptcy, school holidays, snowstorms, accidents, avalanches and low snowfall.
In most places there will probably be enough snow so that records for low snowfall in a season would not be broken.
There was extremely low attendance in 1991 because of low snowfall and the Gulf War.
Peak-to-Peak opened for the first time on December 12, 2008, but low snowfall meant it was rockbound at the time.