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Old 09-09-2021, 07:22 PM
 
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I'm not satisfied with the amount of snow St. Louis proper gets (especially with part of my family living in Pennsylvania) and I wanna be somewhere that gets a good amount of snow in the winter while still being close to St. Louis (around an hour away). Any suggestions?
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Old 09-10-2021, 03:00 PM
 
Location: STL area
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I feel like the line where things change is somewhere around Springfield IL. An hour away probably won’t change much.

It snowed so much more when I was a kid. They make “snow” at Hidden Valley all winter if you really need a fix
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Old 09-12-2021, 10:33 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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I feel like the line where things change is somewhere around Springfield IL. An hour away probably won’t change much.

It snowed so much more when I was a kid. They make “snow” at Hidden Valley all winter if you really need a fix
This is correct. Just googled it. Springfield only receives a few more inches of snow than StL, on average. However, Chicago and Des Moines receive about 15-20 inches more than StL.
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Old 09-24-2021, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Kansas City MO
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There is no place close to St. Louis that anyone would consider "snowy". You can incrementally increase the amount of snow per year by going north, but there is no micro climate, similar to the one on the lee side of any of the Great Lakes that wold increase your snow amounts significantly.
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Old 09-29-2021, 07:16 AM
 
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It snowed so much more when I was a kid.
Same, I miss it.
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Old 09-29-2021, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Boilermaker Territory
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St. Louis averages 10-15 inches of snowfall a season at most anymore with winters really warming up, northwest of the metro may get a bit more, but a marginal difference.


The snowiest place in the Midwest is the Keweenaw Peninsula in the northwest UP of Michigan. Houghton, MI, where Michigan Tech University is, recorded 355 inches of snowfall in the "notorious" winter of 1978-79.

"The record-high seasonal total—a whopping 355.90 inches—came in the winter of 1978–79. The least amount of snowfall, in the winter of 1930–31, is 81.30 inches. Snowfall is measured near Houghton County Memorial Airport by Michigan Tech's Keweenaw Research Center. In the northernmost portion of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Keweenaw County Road Commission measures the snow near Delaware, where snowfall amounts are typically greater than those recorded in Houghton County."

https://www.mtu.edu/alumni/favorites/snowfall/

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Old 01-16-2022, 05:51 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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I'm not satisfied with the amount of snow St. Louis proper gets (especially with part of my family living in Pennsylvania) and I wanna be somewhere that gets a good amount of snow in the winter while still being close to St. Louis (around an hour away). Any suggestions?
I'd try Minneapolis or South Haven Michigan.
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Old 01-17-2022, 06:52 AM
 
Location: Kansas City North
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I don’t know if statistics would back me up, but Kirksville always seems to have the coldest and snowiest forecast in Missouri.
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