"jbm" wrote in message ...
"Peter" wrote in message
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According to tables etc available at

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=pafg

Valdez, a low-level station in Alaska currently has a snow depth of 75
inches or 190.5 cm, which is down a touch from 12th Jan when they were
reporting 84 inches or 213 cm, that's 7 feet of snow. Imagine that in
southern England!

Peter

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Yep! January 1963. Mid Hampshire. Over 12 feet (144", 365cm) [in the
drifts].

I'm sure I read somewhere that in the 1920s (or perhaps the Great SW
Blizzard of 1899) an entire valley 200ft deep was filled with snow.
The tops of the hills were scoured clean of snow by gale force winds,
depositing all the snow in the valley.
Although evidence was anecdotal, I don't think that the possibility of
this happening was entirely discounted.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl