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Weather stations with highest snowfall in the United States by state, 1985-2015; State Place Average annual snowfall [3] elevation of weather station [4] coordinates [4] Other snowy areas (limited or unofficial data) and notes 1. Washington: Paradise, Mount Rainier: 645.5 inches (1,640 cm) 5,400 feet (1,600 m)
High Knob unofficially holds the record for the most snow ever measured in Virginia during a single season, with 200.5 inches (509 cm) during the 1995–96 winter. During a typical year, 60.0 to 70.0 inches (152 to 178 centimetres) of total precipitation falls across the area, to make it one of the wettest areas north of the Great Smokies , and ...
The highest recorded temperature is 110 °F (43 °C) at Balcony Falls on July 15, 1954, and the lowest recorded temperature is −30 °F (−34 °C) at Mountain Lake on January 22, 1985. [ 4 ] Climate data for Lynchburg, Virginia ( Lynchburg Regional Airport ), 1991–2020 normals, [ a ] extremes 1893–present [ b ]
Another reporting site at the New Orleans International Airport, which began recording snow accumulation in 1948, reported their highest total snow record as 2.7 inches in 1963.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has declared a state of emergency as a significant winter storm is expected to bring snow, freezing rain, and dangerously cold temperatures to the Commonwealth ...
The nation's capital woke up to a winter wonderland on Monday as an ongoing winter storm tracked across more than two dozen states, bringing the highest snow totals to the region in years.
In northern Virginia, 2 ft (0.61 m) of snow stranded 2,500 people in Winchester. [10] In western Maryland, snowfall totals unofficially reached 42 in (1,100 mm) in Garrett County . If verified, the total would have been the highest snowfall amount in the state's history.
In 1962, during the Ash Wednesday Storm, Big Meadows recorded Virginia's greatest 24-hour snowfall with 33 inches, and the total storm snowfall was 42 inches at Big Meadows. In the Blizzard of 1996 , Big Meadows recorded Virginia's greatest storm snowfall accumulation at 47 inches.