There was now snow on the ground in every single one of the 50 states — including Hawaii, which had snowfall on one of its volcanoes — except for Florida.
We had very heavy snowfall on the Tashi Lapsa, and one of our porters had to be rescued by helicopter because he got frostbite and snow-blindness.
Watch Ed Harcourt singing Snowfall on TV at theguardian.com/snowfall-on-tv.
Detroit, meanwhile, saw its third-heaviest snowfall on record.
In the early nineties, Fraser began focussing on the impact of increasing snowfall on Adélie penguins.
The glaciers are usually fed by snowfall on the glaciers themselves or by snow avalanches from the surrounding slopes.
As deep as eighteen inches in some areas, the snowfall on Wednesday was the biggest in southern England since 1987.
The biggest snowfall on record in New York City came during the storm of February, 2006, dropping 26.9 inches.
Mr. Lakin said that because of the snowfall on Presidents' Day in February, he had considered taking out blizzard insurance.
London, a city known for its low tolerance for snow, was buffeted by an unusually thick snowfall on Wednesday, the heaviest in more than 20 years.
The main impact of increased snowfall on Adélies, according to Fraser, is that more eggs are being lost as colonies have to cope with melting snow.
