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Plus that is a list of MAJOR cities only. There are plenty of East coast cities that spank Chicago for snowfall amounts. Remember that Maine's largest city is around 70,000 population. (Portland, ME and they average 70.5" a year: Historical Weather for Portland, Maine) Most of Vermont's cities as well as New Hampshire, & New York will beat Chicago in snowfall amounts in an average year.
Upstate NY gets pounded. Have you ever seen pics of upstate NY in winter? People can literally walk onto their roofs because the snow is so deep. Buffalo gets more snow in one year than ABQ does in a decade. http://onlineathens.com/images/123001/buffalo_snow.jpg
They dont get more than Chama New Mexico, belive me if you say they do its bs..thats what i was saying as well.. Chama received 6 feet in less than 24 hours, now be honest with me.. has that happened in "Upstate NY"? Now this one i know becuase we have a 3 story cabin there and the 1st floor and half of the 2nd floor where covered in snow we were traped!!
OMG - that video mentions 36 inches over a weekend and the NM national guard needed to dig them out..................
according to this site this town that pretty much no one has heard of has a population of around 1,200, an elevation pushing 8000 feet and average snowfall of 103 inches
syracuse NY has a metro of over 700,000 - averages a little more snow per year (between 107 - 111 per year) and an elevation of around 380 feet
so yes, as hard as it may be to believe - places in NY get as much if not more snow than Chama, NM
Can't believe only one person has mentioned Utah... there's a reason why our license plates say "Greatest snow on earth." Whether you agree with that or not, we get snow.
They dont get more than Chama New Mexico, belive me if you say they do its bs..thats what i was saying as well.. Chama received 6 feet in less than 24 hours, now be honest with me.. has that happened in "Upstate NY"? Now this one i know becuase we have a 3 story cabin there and the 1st floor and half of the 2nd floor where covered in snow we were traped!!
Must be midgets if 6' of snow can bury your first floor completely and half the second floor.
New York can claim more than that figure as well.
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Northeast Climate Impacts for January 1997 (http://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/climate/Impacts_01-97.html - broken link)
Three locations in the Tug Hill Plateau area recorded over 90 inches. Montague, NY (Lewis County) recorded 95 inches over the event, 40 inches of which fell in 12 hours from Saturday night through Sunday morning (11th-12th). Over a 24-hour period, the site recorded 77 inches, one inch more than the standing United States 24-hour snowfall record, set at Silver Lake, Colorado in April, 1921.
Chama averages around 100" a year total snowfall. that is no big deal to anybody in the UP of Michigan, Upstate New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.... A one time deal for the area cannot be the measure you compare with other areas averages, that makes no sense at all.
Actually, I think it snows at least once a year in every state except for Georgia, Louisiana, and Hawaii.
The Atlanta area usually gets snow at least once per year. We do have mountains, too? Sheesh.
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