Fourteen inches (36 cm) of rain falls in a typical winter.
"We may need a more typical winter before we can decide whether this thing can fly," he said.
All of Massachusetts experiences substantial snowfall in a typical winter.
In a typical winter, highway departments spread about 10 million tons of it to keep roads safe and dry.
The natural snowpack (in the trails) can exceed eight feet (2.4 m) at the summit on a typical winter.
For instance, insects struggle to survive the cold winters typical of the boreal forest.
At Princeton, 255 cases have been diagnosed in six weeks, more than triple the number in a typical winter.
Overnight temperatures fall below freezing about 4 times in a typical winter.
In these remote mountain habitats, typical winters are very hard, but summers are hot and dry.
He did not immediately know if the recent blizzard had caused disproportionately more problems than occur in a typical winter.