What are the snowiest places in New York state?

Answer 1

If you mean the snowiest physical place, it is likely in those areas where large amount of precipitation occur with negative or mostly negative temperatures year-round. These areas are probably the St Elias Mountains and the Chugach Mountains in Alaska (south side), some areas of the Himalaya and of the southern parts of the Norwegian Alps, New Zealand's Southern Alps and southern Chilean Andes.

But I don't think this would make much sense, because we're talking about high elevations in the mountains, where there are obviously no human settlements of any type and data are quite unofficial.

So if you mean the snowiest place in the world not at super high elevations, where snowfall is measured regularly, where there are permanently inhabited settlements, then you have to look at Northern Honshu and Western Hokkaido Island, Japan. If Japan Alps were 4,000 metres high they would be the snowiest place in the whole world with no doubt. Yoichi, Hokkaido, is the snowiest coastal town in the world with 926 cm on average; Aomori, pop.300,000, is the snowiest large city in the world, with about 800 cm on average; Hijori (also known as Okura), Yamagata Prefecture, is the snowiest town of any size in the world, with an amazing average of 1635 cm/year. The biggest depth of snow on ground, around 12 meters, has been measured on Mt. Ibuki in central Honshu around an elevation of 1300 meters.

Sources:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=60

http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/index.html (Japanese)

Answer 2

the snowiest place is actually Valdez, Alaska with 326.0 inches a year.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/2003-10-01-snowiest-cities_x.htm

Update:: While the "city" part is debatable based on the article from USA Today, this original poster referred to "place" instead of "city." The snowiest place I have found so far is Crater Lake, OR. They receive an average of 533 inches per year - over 44 feet. I'm still searching for the area/place with THE MOST snow, since on the Crater Lake website, it only says that "Crater Lake is one of the snowiest areas in the entire Northwest" - which means there must be a snowier place in the entire US! :)

Reference: http://www.nps.gov/crla/planyourvisit/index.htm

Answer 3

Barrow, Alaska It is the northernmost city in the US inside the Arctic Circle.

Answer 4

I've heard (unconfirmed) that the snowest city in the US is Blue Canyon, CA

Answer 5

I don't know! Colorado is pretty bad...!

Answer 6

buffalo