From the National Weather Service in Anchorage:
132.8 inches...........1954-1955
128.8 inches...........1955-1956 113.8 inches...........2003-2004
121.5 inches...........1994-1995
111.0 inches...........1948-1949
Fairbanks, Alaska holds the record for the highest seasonal snowfall in the 1961-1962 season with 100.6 inches of snow.
The total snowfall for Anchorage Alaska through March 8, 2012 is 126" and it is snowing today March 14, 2012. We will set a new record if we surpass 132" that we received in 1954-55. Let it snow - let it snow!!!!
The record snowfall in Tigard, Oregon is 19 inches, which occurred on January 31 to February 2, 2014.
Philadelphia received an annual record snowfall of 78.7 inches during the winter of 2009-2010.
The record snowfall in Hawaii was 60 inches (5 feet) on Mauna Kea on May 12-13, 1979.
Fairbanks, Alaska holds the record for the highest seasonal snowfall in the 1961-1962 season with 100.6 inches of snow.
129.4 inches of snow has fallen during this current winter season as of March 17t, 2012. The record for a season is 132.6 inches.
The total snowfall for Anchorage Alaska through March 8, 2012 is 126" and it is snowing today March 14, 2012. We will set a new record if we surpass 132" that we received in 1954-55. Let it snow - let it snow!!!!
The record for 24 hour snowfall in the US occurred on February 9, 1963 at the Mile 47 Camp in Alaska. There were 78 inches of snowfall that day.
The record 24 hour snowfall is 62" at Thompson Pass.
The record snowfall in Wasilla, Alaska is 134.5 inches, which occurred during the winter of 1954-1955.
The record is 972 inches for a whole winter, set in Thompson Pass at about 2500 feet above sea level north of Valdez.
Mount Baker in Washington hold the highest seasonal snowfall record in the US. A total of 1,140 inches of snow or 95 feet fell during the winter of 1998 to 1999.
The record for 24 hour snowfall in the US occurred on February 9, 1963 at the Mile 47 Camp in Alaska. There were 78 inches of snowfall that day.
In several on-line biographies of Morse, there is no record of his ever having visited Alaska. Remember that Alaska was purchased from Russia only 5 years before Morse's death.
The record snowfall in Tigard, Oregon is 19 inches, which occurred on January 31 to February 2, 2014.
Alaska's climate varies immensely, from the cool and super-humid southeast to the brutally cold and dry Arctic Coast.Total precipitation over Alaska is typically around 3,000 millimetres (120 inches) in the southeast, around 300 to 400 millimetres (12 to 16 inches) in the Interior and West, and around 100 millimetres (4 inches) on the North Slope.In the high southeastern mountains, as much as 150 metres (5,905 inches) of snow may fall per year, which is equivalent to 11,000 millimetres of rain (though on Mount Logan it never gets warmer than -20˚C or -4˚F and is mostly around -40˚C or -40˚F).Actual rainfall (liquid precipitation) over Alaska varies from around 40 millimetres (1.5 inches) over the North Slope, to between 200 and 300 millimetres (8 to 12 inches) over the interior and West. In the warmer southern coast rainfall varies from around 12 inches over the rain shadow areas near Anchorage to around 3,000 millimetres at Yakutat and 3,800 millimetres at Ketchikan where it can be too mild for snow even in winter.