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A major winter storm is sweeping across much of the nation's middle section through the end of the weekend and into early this week, bringing a swath of hazardous snow and ice. Track the storm's ...
Here's how we compiled the list: We pored through 30-year average snowfall statistics of hundreds of locations in the U.S. from 1991 through 2020. We considered only those towns and cities with a ...
A winter storm dumped snow and ice on a portion of the Midwest while bringing strong winds and severe cold to millions of Americans in a region bracing for winter weather this week. While much of ...
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972. [2]
The regional snowfall index (RSI) is a system used by NOAA to assess the societal impact of winter storms in the United States. The system is a replacement for the Northeast snowfall impact scale (NESIS) system. Since its initiation, the NCDC has retroactively assigned RSI values to over 500 historical storms since 1900.
The lake-effect largely contributes to the 55 inches (140 cm) to 80 inches (200 cm) annual snowfall amounts recorded south and east of the lake, [24] with average snowfall amounts exceeding 600 inches (1,500 cm) in the Wasatch Mountains. [25]
A massive storm will spread snow and ice along a 1,500-mile-long zone from vast portions of the Plains and Mississippi Valley to many areas of the Appalachians and the Atlantic coast from this ...
As of January 24, top seasonal snowfall amounts at official NOAA snow stations include Juneau, Alaska, with 89.7 inches (7.5 feet); Anchorage, Alaska, at 87.7 inches; Marquette, Michigan, at 63.2 ...