Snow

The winter of 2009-2010 was a record snowfall year for the Charlottesville-Albemarle area with over 60 inches of snow. It started on Dec 5 with about 3-4 in of slushy snow which didn't last very long. On December 18 2009, 27 inches of snow fell in a time span of about 27 hours starting Friday afternoon lasting until Saturday evening. The snow lasted until January 18 when the last of the snow melted off the green. Then on January 30th we received another 10 inches followed by 3 more inches February 2nd. Before any of that could melt, 18 more inches fell February 5th and 6th. The final snowfall came on February 9th and 10th, about 3 inches. This snow was both beneficial and harmful to the green. It helped because it acted as an insulator of the green. It did however starve the green of oxygen and sunlight. There was no lack of water, that's for sure. The green really started greening up around mid-March.