which state/city has the most snow each year? (average, cities, season)

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by Come_on_now

Try NH.. I got 135 inches this past winter.. Or you can go to norther Maine..my husband would have snow almost up to June and there would always be snow on the ground by Halloween. Says he doesn't remember a year NOT wearing a snow suit under his costumes as a kid.

What a load. Tara we have discussed this before. Your hubby was from New Sweden area of Maine which I spent the last 20 years. NEVER had snow until June. Not even this year which broke all prior snowfall records did we have snow past May. All time snowfall record for Northern Maine was this last winter with 197.8" which isn't really that much compared to other areas. Your Hubby is either lying through his teeth to you, or you are making up the whole story yourself. My kids have NEVER wore snowsuits under their Halloween costumes while living in the same area, and we have had snow on the ground exactly once I can remember on Halloween.

[VegasGrace]

Fairbanks, AK

[Go_get_happy]

Originally Posted by Bydand

What a load. Tara we have discussed this before. Your hubby was from New Sweden area of Maine which I spent the last 20 years. NEVER had snow until June. Not even this year which broke all prior snowfall records did we have snow past May. All time snowfall record for Northern Maine was this last winter with 197.8" which isn't really that much compared to other areas. Your Hubby is either lying through his teeth to you, or you are making up the whole story yourself. My kids have NEVER wore snowsuits under their Halloween costumes while living in the same area, and we have had snow on the ground exactly once I can remember on Halloween.

Whatever you have your opinion I have mine, I believe my husband... I have pictures of them in snowsuits UNDER their halloween costumes and I have pictures of snow up to their roof. I'm not going to argue with you about this so you can leave it at that.

[Bostonredsock5]

Originally Posted by VegasGrace

Fairbanks, AK

Fairbanks doesnt really get alot of snow it just gets COLD. If your talking Alaska I think Hanies and Valdez get alot.

[dxiweodwo]

Originally Posted by VegasGrace

Fairbanks, AK

Fairbanks get's on average about 67 inches of snow a year. Not that much, IMO.


I think one of the places that has the highest annual snowfall is Crater Lake, OR. 545 inches a year

[dcabrer1]

International Falls MN -- the ice box of the nation

[Bydand]

International Falls is C cold, but really doesn't get that much snow when compared to most places in the mountains.

[unclejake21]

the entire u.p. of michigan gets tons of snow from the lake effect of lake superior. look into marquette houghton or sault ste. marie.

[Ticky909]

If your talking state as a whole, thats tough to think of averages in terms of inches of snow per unit of area off the top of my head without going through the calculations, that would be an interesting set of statistics to look at though. The Rocky Mountain West gets very large amounts in the mountains, and competitive amounts on the high plain sections of the states, probably an avg of 200 in the mtns and ~70 on the plains, compared to other areas, it'd be hard to beat. NY has good numbers in sections of the state, and fizzles out in other areas. My vote would have to be somewhere in the rocky mountain west, in terms of snowfall/area.

[bob rulz]

Originally Posted by Fleet

Snowiest Cities:

Location----------------------- Snowfall/year--- Population

Truckee, Calif.----------------- 203.4"----- 13,800
Marquette, MI (airport)--------- 179.8------ - -
Marquette, MI (city)------------ 118.2----- 19,600
Steamboat Springs, CO--------- 173.3------ 9,000
Oswego, NY-------------------- 153.3----- 18,000
Sault Ste. Marie, MI------------- 131.2----- 16,600
Saracuse, NY------------------- 120.2----- 147,300
Meadville, PA------------------- 111.2----- 13,700
Flagstaff, AZ------------------- 111.1------ 53,000
Watertown, NY----------------- 110.8------ 26,700
Muskegon, MI------------------ 105.9------ 40,100
Rochester, NY------------------ 99.5------- 219,800
Utica, NY----------------------- 98.5------- 60,600
Montpelier, VT------------------ 97.9------- 8,100
Traverse City, MI--------------- 96.8-------14,500
Buffalo, NY--------------------- 95.7------- 292,700
Juneau, AL--------------------- 95.3------- 30,700
Presque Isle, ME---------------- 93.2------- 9,600
Cortland, NY-------------------- 91.3------- 18,700
Casper, WY--------------------- 85.6------- 49,700
Duluth, MN---------------------- 83.3------- 87,000
Berlin, NH----------------------- 82.6------- 10,300
Burlington, VT------------------- 81.6------- 38,900

Here's some other decent-sized towns that could make the list:

Valdez, AK: 218.4"
South Lake Tahoe, CA: 200.6"
Vail, CO: 182.3"
Lead, SD: 142.3"
Park City, UT: 141.8"
Aspen, CO: 136.9"
Leadville, CO: 117.5"
Ketchum, ID: 114.1"
Lander, WY: 99.9"
Bozeman, MT: 83.9"

I got the data from this website: Western U.S. Climate Historical Summaries

Most of it isn't exact but they're not far off.

Btw, most date I've seen for Flagstaff has it around 85", not 110". Where did you get your data from?