Creating a collection of several hundred maps detailing and archiving specific winter storms is vital to more efficiently assess how snow, sleet, and freezing rain frequencies, distributions, and geographical preferences have varied in time and ascertaining what elusive role(s) (if any) that anthropogenic climate change may play in modulating the background environment surrounding these winters storms. This archive is also necessary for the identification of potential future case studies, further quality control of the COOP dataset, and interpolation of missing station data, hence providing more accurate and precise local and regional winter wx climatologies