It is also one of the snowiest places in the world; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located 14 km to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season 1140 inches.
On an average, 228 days are recorded as precipitation days per year, and precipitation is in the range of 70-80 includingcluding 14 feet of annual snowfall; the highest recorded snowfall is of the order of 100 feet in the Fairweather Mountains.
The maximum recorded snowfall in a single month was 38.4 inches in April 1894.
It tells of earthquakes, plummeting temperatures and forecasts of record snowfall.
WASHINGTON — Road crews, power company workers and plain old homeowners with shovels struggled in gleaming sunshine on Sunday to clean up from a weekend of record snowfall here, but they faced little hope of returning to normalcy soon because five or more inches was forecast within days.
This has been a long drawn out, cold and snowy winter in New England, especially in Boston, which is close to a record snowfall of 107.6 inches, compared with an average of 42 inches.
But the city, which recorded a snowfall of 21.2 inches Jan . 31-Feb
Metro Detroit had 3.1 inches of snowfall recorded at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich .as of Tuesday morning.
After a record snowfall of more than 100 inches this year, Amherst and other towns in western New York remain partly buried in hard-packed snow, much of it left by town and state snowplows.
One factor in the high number of deaths is a record snowfall that has created treacherous snowmelt, swelling streams and rivers at a time of year when nature in Yosemite is supposed to be relatively tranquil.
