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jbm writes:
"Peter" wrote in message news:c2cd6c32-1b95-40ca-9307-45845e19
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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].

jim, Northampton


Yes, but I imagine the 7 feet was "level" snow. Even in this country
drifts greater than 12 feet occasionally occur. mostly in upland
locations of course.

ISTR that some location in Wales measured somewhere around 6 feet of
level snow at one pint during the winter of 1947.
--
John Hall
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw