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Snowfall rates play an important role in winter storm forecasts. Here's a look at some extreme examples from the past that illustrate how much can fall in an hour.
Pillow drift – A pillow drift is a snow drift crossing a roadway and usually 3 to 4.5 metres (10–15 feet) in width and 30 cm to 90 cm (1–3 feet) in depth. [ 28 ] Sastrugi – Sastrugi are snow surface features sculpted by wind into ridges and grooves up to 3 meters high, [ 29 ] with the ridges facing into the prevailing wind.
At Central Park in New York, 11.4 inches (29 cm) of snow was recorded, while other parts of the city accumulated as much as 16 inches (41 cm). Much of Long Island was hit with over 2 feet (61 cm) of snow, with snowfall as high as 33.5 inches (85 cm) being recorded in Medford , in Suffolk County .
Sugar Bowl Ski Resort 2.5 miles east of Soda Springs, 500 inches (1,300 cm) annually. [9] Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [ 10 ] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year.
Bands of heavy lake-effect snow will develop in the wake of a storm straddling 2024 and 2025 from the Upper Midwest and interior Northeast. AccuWeather meteorologists say sneaky bursts of snow in ...
A short-lived break is coming before several inches of more snow and a blast of bone-chilling air arrive. ... an additional 1 foot of snow is possible through Tuesday in some of the same areas of ...
Saybrook, population 10,000, recorded more than 56 inches of snow. Geneva had 47 inches and Edgewood almost 40 inches. In Pennsylvania, the Erie County town of Girard measured more than 59 inches ...
Light: visibility greater than 1 kilometer (0.6 mi) Moderate: visibility restrictions between 0.5 and 1 kilometer (0.3 and 0.6 mi) Heavy: visibility is less than 0.5 kilometers (0.3 mi) Snowsqualls may deposit snow in bands that extend from bodies of water as lake-event weather or result from the passage of an upper-level front. [42] [43] [44]