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Should be in winter 86/87 with 55cm. My first winter maybee explains my love for snow..
Was surprised thought 78/79 was the most but only managed 44cm here.
Great also 09/10 with only 33cm on the sea but up to 63cm not far away in Greifswald.
This part of the world gets snow fairly gradually in the winter, not in big dumps.
All-time one-day snowfall records in Ottawa and Montreal are about 50 cm. Toronto is 40 cm.
Snow generally falls in 5, 10, sometimes 15 cm snowfalls every couple of days. So it gets packed and also disappears a bit due to sublimation, etc.
Records for one-day snowfalls in the NE US in cities like DC, Philadelphia, NYC and Boston are generally in the 65-75 cm range. So way more than our records - even if overall they get much less snow than we do.
And while snowbanks can be high here, they can be insane down there if they get two or three storms in a row. A few years ago the lying snow in the Boston area was over six feet high or about 2 m.
That storm in 2013 was the biggest in my area of Central LI.
I remember in Port Jeff, the snow depth was around 33" .
What's more, they didn't plow the highways at all, so my car got stranded and I left it in the middle of the highway, walked home about 2 miles, and walked back 2 days later to pick it up once it melted a bit. Same thing happened to everyone. They had CAT tractors in every intersection trying to remove the snow.
Other parts of LI had bigger totals in 2015 and 2016.
That storm in 2013 was the biggest in my area of Central LI.
I remember in Port Jeff, the snow depth was around 33" .
What's more, they didn't plow the highways at all, so my car got stranded and I left it in the middle of the highway, walked home about 2 miles, and walked back 2 days later to pick it up once it melted a bit. Same thing happened to everyone. They had CAT tractors in every intersection trying to remove the snow.
Other parts of LI had bigger totals in 2015 and 2016.
Wasn't that "Nemo"? But yeah, I've burned a specific memory from that one regarding the cars stranded and buried on the highway. I thought I would never see that again like the 1970s. Being that we have warnings and better equipment but the population is more so harder to control.
A Low from the plains merged with a low from the south near Del Marva and headed up the coast. See entire thread of that storm here. I ended up with 17"!
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I knew we would see these types of pics. I hope everyone is ok and will survive through this.
Did you look at how much less precipitation Ardahan has in winter? But its record snow thickness is 113 cm. I would expect higher snow thinkness than Ardahan.
The historical average in my Vermont driveway is about 225" of snowfall. There are enough thaws and rain events that it's pretty unusual to get more than 4 feet of snow pack. Up on the mountain 2500 feet higher and with more orographic lift microclimate, 8 to 10 feet of snow pack happens occasionally. The Mount Mansfield snow stake recorded 149" in 1969. 100"+ isn't particularly remarkable and happens about 50% of the time.
I remember skiing Whistler the year Mount Baker broke all the yearly snowfall records with 1,140". I was skiing things that were usually cliffs. There must have been 15+ feet of snow pack. Even down at 2,000 feet, the yard had 7 or 8 feet of snow pack.
That was the winter of 1998-99, took the record from Paradise Ranger Station, on Mt. Rainier that was 1,122" (2,850cm) in 1971-72.
The most snow on the ground for me was 65" (165cm) February 2 1916. Runner up was 63" on December 31 1996.
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