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Valdez, Alaska, picked up almost two feet of snow (47.5 inches) in just 24 hours, a record for the town. When the storm was over, 64.9 inches of snow buried Valdez in less than 2 days.
Residents of Alaska’s capital were digging out Wednesday after back-to-back winter storms brought the city’s snowfall totals for the month to near-record levels, leaving some parked cars ...
The snow accumulation at Pensacola (8.9 inches), New Orleans (8 inches) & Mobile (7.5 inches) are beating New York City, Sioux Falls, Des Moines, Albuquerque, Reno, and even Anchorage, Alaska ...
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 last El Niño winter was 2018-2019 and resulted in an ice storm that brought snow and ice as far east as Charleston, SC. That was a mild El Niño. That was a mild El Niño. The one in 2023 ...
In the early 1970s, Thompson Pass was the scene of frantic activity as thousands of workers built a portion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System from a camp located nearby. [citation needed] Heavy snowfall in the pass slowed work in the winter, but the pipeline was completed by 1977, and oil today flows through the pass on an almost constant basis.
On March 17, 2002, there was a storm that caused 28.6 in of snow to close schools for two days. [11] The storm broke the city record for the most snowfall in a single day. The storm beat the previous record from 1955 on March 16, which was just 15.6 inches. The National Weather Service also recorded this same snow data. [12]
A winter weather advisory is now in effect until 9 p.m. Sunday, with blowing snow, rain and mixed precipitation to be expected in Nome and other parts of western Alaska, the National Weather ...