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There's been a lot in the news recently about the brutal start to Winter 2010-2011 and the tremendous snow falls and bone chilling temperatures we have already seen. So.....
I was wondering what your all-time ever 24 hour snow dump was, where it was and when it happened? This isn't limited to the U.S. or North America so those of you who live elsewhere can also chime in.
I'll Start: Corvallis, OR. 20 inches (50 cm) on December 9-10, 1919. This was followed by the only double digit below 0F reading in the city's history.
I have personally measured 10.5 inches (27 cm) on January 13, 1971 in Corvallis and 29.5 inches (in 18 hours!) in the Mid-Hudson Valley on January 19-20, 1961
76" in 24 hours at Silver Lake, Colorado (in the mountains west of Boulder) on April 14-15, 1921. A total of 87" fell in 27.5 hours during that storm. Typically, the snowiest months in the southern and central Rockies are in late winter and spring, not from December-February.
This shows 87" in 24 hours in Bowman Dam, California
A very interesting article. The States has very good data and records on so many weather conditions. I think it's possible that NZ has the biggest annual snowfall in the world, but it's unlikely we'll ever know. The biggest 24 hour snowfall I've seen in NZ (in a town) was about 50 cm in Queenstown in 1994.
24 hour snowfall record here is a Trace back on January 19, 1977
In Florida the 24 hour record is 3" in Milton, FL on March 6, 1954.
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