Which country (region) received the most snow, and how much?

Question

What I am asking is in which region/country, or an area in a country, where the most snowfall has been recorded. For example, Yellowknife, Canada may have had the most snow ever recorded in the world...that's what im asking for, not necessarily which country has received the most snow, just the most snowfall ever recorded.

Answer 1

USA or Switzerland.
I dont know by how much.
i have heard upto some 6 inches snow fall on USA.

Answer 2

What country gets the most snow and why? We've searched and come up with no answers.


This is a harder question than it seems. The problem is that there are snow places in many countries, but the whole country may not be very snowy. The US. for example, is less snowy than Canada, on average -- by a lot. But there are places in the U.S. that receive more snow than most places in Canada. So the question is, are you looking for snowy countries, or just snowy places in countries. The U.S. has a long history of measuring "inches of snowfall" while that has not been a standard meteorological measurement in many other countries.

That being said, where are the snowy places. Basically, the best combination is the northern mid latitudes to southern high latitudes (north of perhaps 40 deg N latitude but not all the way up to the Arctic and close to a rich source of moisture (like an ocean). Throw in some mountains to help squeeze out the moisture, and then you're in business. There are snowy places in high mountains in other parts of the world (Asia, for example) but snowfall generally falls short of those areas that are closer to relatively warm oceans. So some of the possibilities become the U.S. Pacific NW, British Columbia in Canada. The areas of SE Alaska where mountain ranges are close to the Pacific. Then head over to Europe -- the Alps harvest a lot of Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea moisture. The mountains of Norway get tons of snow. And so on and so on. In the southern Hemisphere there are fewer candidates, but the best is the southern Andes mountains, and the mountain ranges of New Zealand.

You can pretty much narrow down the possibilities like this. Then, perhaps, you may be able to find some specific data from those locations.