Um, no it wasn't. You are the one reading it wrong. 17" in the snow depth delta, not the SWE. Go take a look at the
radio options on the right. It is not rapidly updating and while it may be the "gold standard" for government stuff, it's still not quick and there are tons of clearly inaccurate or old readings. Go look for yourself. I'm looking at the 4-day delta of snow depth, not SWE at Snowbird. The SWE equivalent is 1.6" delta. It defaults to 4 days.