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At an elevation of 5,000 feet, Mt. Ibuki picked up 90.6 inches (about 7.5 feet) of snow on Feb. 14, 1927, leaving 465.4 inches of snow on the ground. This yearly pummeling requires some adaptations.
There are different snow reporting sites within New Orleans, but the oldest records from a sub-station that's no longer in service reported 10 inches of snow in 1895, and 14.4 inches in 1909.
By comparison, the populated place with the highest snowfall in the world is believed to be Sukayu Onsen in the Siberian-facing Japanese Alps. Sukayu Onsen receives 694.5 inches (1,764 cm) (nearly 58 feet) of snow annually. Nearby mountain slopes may receive even more. [1]
Most in a 24-hour period: 230 centimetres (90.6 in) of snow on Mount Ibuki, Japan on 14 February 1927. [ 308 ] Most in one calendar month : 9.91 meters (390 inches) of snow fell in Tamarack, California , in January 1911, leading to a snow depth in March of 11.46 meters (451 inches) (greatest measured in North America).
A 2007 estimate of snow cover over the Northern Hemisphere suggested that, on average, snow cover ranges from a minimum extent of 2 million square kilometres (0.77 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) each August to a maximum extent of 45 million square kilometres (17 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) each January or nearly half of the land surface in that hemisphere.
Sukayu Onsen is the snowiest inhabited place on Earth with an average yearly snowfall of 17.6 m (58 ft) and a winter season record of 23.7 m (78 ft). It also holds the record of having the highest snow depth ever recorded at a JMA certified weather station of 566 cm (18.57 ft), recorded on February 26, 2013. [ 2 ]
Some areas around Kansas City, Missouri saw as much as 12 inches of snow over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service, as of Monday morning, Jan. 6, 2025 around 9 a.m. ET.