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Storms are ranked from category 0 ("nuisance") to 5 ("extreme") on the scale. The impact of the storms is assessed in six different regions of the United States: Northeast, Northern Rockies & Plains, Ohio Valley, South, Southeast, and Upper Midwest. [1] A category 5 extreme ranking is indicated by a numerical score of 18 or higher on the scale.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a United States information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research.NSIDC archives and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data and also maintains information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores.
Weather stations with highest snowfall in the United States by state, 1985-2015; State Place Average annual snowfall [3] elevation of weather station [4] coordinates [4] Other snowy areas (limited or unofficial data) and notes 1. Washington: Paradise, Mount Rainier: 645.5 inches (1,640 cm) 5,400 feet (1,600 m)
Yosemite National Park will stay closed indefinitely after record snowfall. The popular tourist destination was due to reopen on Wednesday (1 March) but will remain closed as 15ft of snow is ...
They got about 20 inches of snow over 24 hours as of about 8 a.m. Saturday, the rangers told the weather service. About 110 inches has settled on the ground there.
Badger Pass Ski Area is a small ski area located within Yosemite National Park.Badger Pass is one of only three lift serviced ski areas operating in a US National Park (Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area in Olympic National Park and Boston Mills/Brandywine Ski Resort in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park are the others).
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The last stand of Lake Yosemite was about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long and was impounded by a terminal moraine near the base of El Capitan. It was later filled by sediment, becoming a swampy meadow. The parallel Tenaya Canyon and Little Yosemite Canyon glaciers were, at their largest, 2,000 feet (610 m) deep where they flowed into the Yosemite ...