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The storm has broken daily snowfall records in Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and West Virginia and could knock down other records as it continues to disrupt road and air travel and shutter schools and ...
The most recent record setters and the oldest. Six U.S. states have 24-hour snowfall records that were tied or broken this century. Those states include Connecticut (2013), Oklahoma (2011), Kansas ...
Ice buildup in Columbus, Ohio. Snowfall records were set at Dayton (16 inches (41 cm)), Greenfield (24 inches (61 cm)), and Mansfield (23 inches (58 cm)). A major ice storm impacted southeast and eastern sections of the state. After the storm, a record low was set on Christmas Day when the temperature fell to −17 °F (−27 °C).
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [10] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year. Tamarack in Calaveras County holds the record for the deepest snowfall on earth (884 inches (2,250 cm)). 5. Alaska: Valdez: 314.1 inches (798 cm) 95 feet (29 m)
The U.S. record is 12 inches in a single hour. That happened in a lake-effect snow band east of Lake Ontario in Copenhagen, New York, on Dec. 2, 1966, according to a list of record snowfall rates ...
The cooperative observer station at the Bennetts Bridge power plant, near Altmar, New York, established an official all-time New York State monthly snowfall record with 192 inches (16.0 ft; 4.9 m) of snowfall in January 1978. [16] Long-term New York weather stations that established all-time monthly snowfall records in January 1978 include:
Port Columbus reported total snowfall of 20.4 in (51.8 cm), the most ever recorded for central Ohio. [12] Large sections of Ohio including the Dayton and Cincinnati areas were under snow emergencies. Five to seven inches (13 to 18 cm) fell across Mississippi with over one foot (30 cm) of snow in parts of Kentucky (including Louisville) and ...