i never knew that. when thinking deep snow in Asia i think Siberia , North Korea and the Himalayas. what’s their average snowfall there?
Really crazy, up to 400 inches a year. It’s basically lake effect snow on steroids. Cold Continental air comes off of Siberia all winter long and picks up moisture over the ocean and dumps it right onto that part of Japan
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thats nuts! our record was 200in.and we did alot of digging that year.
Funny. I am the opposite. I was born and live in Denver CO where it is a lot of snow (not 400 inches snow but a lot none the less). My entire lifetime I have wanted to escape the snow. I don’t mind if it is somewhere like the south where on rare occasions it snows 1 day and everyone calls out but I have never been a snow person.
up until 20yrs ago., unless a storm dropped over 18in. with at least 10-20mph winds, they didnt close the schools. i remember a bunch of us , helping the bus driver in middle school , put on chains on the bus because people were stuck on the bigger hills we needed to go up. sometimes whiteouts were so bad in open field areas, only the driver’s knowledge of where the road was kept him on course. we would sit in the far back of the bus and watch the bus frame twist as we hit the drifts, cheering him on all the way. great times!
We’ve had flurries twice in 40 years between Jacksonville Florida and Ware County Georgia. Only once in Florida was there any accumulation.
And yes…everyone loses their mind!!!
From my understanding the reason people freak out when it snows in Georgia, the Carolina’s Virginia etc. is the way it comes down. Here you have the blows and the roads for it for one. The other problem I heard is it comes down as a sheet of ice so it is less so like driving on snow and driving on ice. The only time it was pure ice here my car was iced shut and I bear crawled back into the house because I could not walk back up the hill. My sister lives in Virginia so I hear stories about the rain. I have debated moving into one of those areas but my grandma and mother want me to live in CO by my mother so my mother and grandma have been talking about the cons.
The usual in a season was 312 inches or 26 feet. The mountain I used to go back country snowboarding in didn’t get good until it had about 9 feet of base. I did see overachiever years.
The area is a veritable conveyor belt of moist air hitting cold air.
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The reason is that we are always warm during the day so it begins as rain almost every single time we have gotten snow. So any salt on the roads is washed off, then at night it dips below freezing which then makes the roads ice and then it will put a small accumulation on top of that. The roads get pretty bad here but I’m 99% sure it’s due to the rain washing every drop of salt off first. No snow in years tho and I’ll be satisfied if I never see it again haha