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[Crossroads Inc.]

So how often have you settled in a cold biome and start off with SNOW EVERYWHERE.
Every last thing covered in snow.  You think AWESOME! A cold harsh environment to test my Dwarves upon!

Of course come spring it all melts... But you spend the whole next year waiting, waiting for the whole world to go white again!
And when winter does indeed come again???

Nothing...
The river freezes, and there is some "light dusting of snow" on the high reaches, and thats all.
Why no snow?

[dirty foot]

I'm trying to perfect the art of increasing winter biomes that aren't total tundras. I'd like a nice, "mid-west" feel with a river I can count on. I often get very wonky embarks that function more like temperate zones with a strange 2 month winter tacked on.

[Sunday]

That's odd.

My current fort is in a biome with pretty constant snowstorms during the winter.

[Loud Whispers]

Look for freezing. You might just have terrible weather. When I get blizzards, they're pretty bad, so I don't know what you're talking about

[Crossroads Inc.]

Indeed, I don't know that I have found a biome where the snow melts and then recovers the ground again.
usually the only place with big winters is where its snow all year round :/

[Ultimuh]

Embark on a glacier, that will most likely get the kind of enviroment you are looking for. 

[Crossroads Inc.]

yes but thats ALL SNOW
was looking for something that had a bit of green and summer, but that still gets heavy snow during winter,

[Karnewarrior]

yes but thats ALL SNOW
was looking for something that had a bit of green and summer, but that still gets heavy snow during winter,

  High latitude temprate zones and low latitude cold zones should give you what you're looking for. Snow comes as often as rain, so a rainforest would coat you in snow whereas a plains biome may stay green for a year or two. It all comes down to chance.

  I also like those kind of biomes; even though a surface well becomes an impossibility! Nothing like getting a bucket lodged in the ice.