The first day of winter was yesterday, December 21, and it’s only fitting to talk about snow.Here in San Diego we don’t think much about it, though. We have a Mediterranean climate that gives warm sunshine all year. But other parts of the country, of course, get snow; lots of snow.
Snow records have only been kept about a hundred years, but there are still some amazing snowfalls on record.In 1921, Silver Lake, Colorado, received 76 inches of snow in only 24 hours.
In 1955, a five-day storm dropped 175 inches of snow over parts of Alaska. That’s nearly 15 feet of snow in less than a week.
And in a year’s period, 1,224 inches of snow fell on Mt. Rainer in Washington state, making that the heaviest recorded annual snow.Snow can be such a pain, especially if you have to drive in it or shovel out your walkway each day. But individual snowflakes are beautiful, as these pictures from SnowFlakes.com illustrate.
