2 feet of Smoky Mountain rain compared to snowfall reveals inaccurate estimation method.

The article examines the flawed practice of comparing heavy rainfall to snowfall, using the recent 2 feet of rain in the Smoky Mountains as an example. It explains that storms producing significant rain, such as thunderstorms or tropical systems, contain much more water vapor than snowstorms. Therefore, equating rainfall to snowfall is misleading and any attempts to estimate how much snow would have fallen are inaccurate.