5 Inches of Rain Would Be HOW Much Snow?

We are supposed to get 3-5 inches of rain in the next day here in southeast Minnesota. That's a lot of rain. But it could be worse. It could be below freezing and that rain would be snow. But just how much snow would that be?According to sources, when the temperature is around 30 degrees, one inch of liquid precipitation would fall as 10 inches of snow -- assuming the storm is all snow.
But, the amount of moisture in each snowflake differs depending on the temperature changing the snow to rain ratio.

From answers.Yahoo.com, 15 inches of dry powder snow equals 1 inch of rain. This is also equivalent to only five inches of very wet snow. The accepted average is ten inches.

Others said 12 inches of snow equal 1 inch of rain.

So to reiterate, if the rain was snow, we would have around 50-60 inches of snow. Now you know! - Alan