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The list of snowiest places in the United States by state shows average annual snowfall totals for the period from mid-1985 to mid-2015. Only places in the official climate database of the National Weather Service, a service of NOAA, are included in this list. Some ski resorts and unofficial weather stations report higher amounts of snowfall ...
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 ...
Thanks primarily to lake-effect snow, the USA's snowiest big city is Syracuse, New York, which gets about 11 feet of snow per winter season, the National Weather Service said. It's also one of the ...
Mt. Baker Ski Area is a ski resort in the northwest United States, located in Whatcom County, Washington, at the end of State Route 542. The base elevation is at 3,500 feet (1,067 m), while the peak of the resort is at 5,089 feet (1,551 m). It is about ten miles (16 km) south of the 49th parallel, the international border with Canada.
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.
According weather data tallied between July 1, 1985, and June 30, 2015, for every location in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's official climate database, Gravette, Arkansas, is the snowiest place in the state of Arkansas with an average of 16 inches of snow per year.
Without snow, the ground absorbs more heat, creating a warming feedback loop. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Snow depth tracker: See how much snowfall has hit the US Show comments
According to weather data tallied between July 1, 1985 and June 30, 2015 for every location in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's official climate database, Edina, Missouri, is the snowiest place in the state of Missouri with an average of 22 inches (560 mm) of snow per year.