NOTE – We are still missing some of the US cities over 100,000 and we will add them as we find them. All of the cities below should be up to date as of today 2/17/2012!
The first number is the current spot the city is on the snow mountain. The second number is where the city was at the end of the last season. We will be switching it to how the city started this season and then the current updated place as the cities receive snowfall totals.
This is where the Top Ten Snowiest US Cities leading so far in the new Golden Snow Globe Contest will be updated. Does your city have what it takes to stay in the top 10. All of the cities will be on a rolling system with only the top ten snowiest cities here on the main page. That meaning that if your number 10 and another city passes you, poof, your gone from this section. Can your city stay in the top ten is the question? Our guess is that there will be some bouncing around especially at the beginning of the 2011 – 2012 snow season. Good Luck to All the Golden Snow Globe Cities.
The 2011 – 2012 Snowiest City in the US (population 100,000 +)
|
Top 10 Snowiest |
| Now – Last Update |
and Cities |
City |
2011 – 2012 |
Average |
| 1-1 | Anchorage, Alaska |
275,043 |
106.7 |
55.9 |
| 2-2 | Lakewood, Colorado |
140,671 |
69.4 |
??? |
| 3-3 | Denver, Colorado |
557,917 |
52.4 |
36.3 |
| 4-4 | Fort Collins, Colorado |
128,026 |
49.5 |
??? |
| 5-5 | South Bend, Indiana |
105,262 |
46.5 |
52.4 |
| 6-6 | Erie, Pa |
102,612 |
43.6 |
76.7 |
| 7-14 | Rochester, New York |
211,091 |
41.1 |
69.7 |
| 8-7 | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
193,780 |
39.1 |
59.5 |
| 9-8 | Syracuse, New York |
141,683 |
36.2 |
91.5 |
| 10-10 | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
113,271 |
32.4 |
??? |
I live in Roxborough, about 20 miles from Lakewood, and I have had 86.5 inches so far with over 120 inches reported from part of my town just 5 miles south. We are loving this winter. It snows a foot, and for the next 6 days, its 50 and mild, Love this pattern
I live in Syracuse, and to be honest, although we locals do have an odd sense of pride about our status as the snowiest city in the country – it’s nice to let someone else hold the championship belt for a season.
Sorry to hear that you are not getting much snow down there. I am here in Anchorage and as of yesterday we broke all previous records for the amount of snow to date. We have had 81 inches as of yesterday and it is still snowing today. 81 inches is about twice what we normally have to date. In 94-95 we got 77 inches by January 9 and ended up with 120 for the winter. That year was beaten by 1954-5 which got 132.8 inches for the year and only 75 inches by January 9th. I was here in 94-5 and I recall that everyone started worrying about roofs collapsing under the snow. It happened in several places in town including the church down the street from me.
The small towns of Cordova and Valdez are also getting hit with more snow than usual:
http://www.adn.com/2012/01/10/2256990/cordova-short-of-shovels-as-snow.html.
Thanks for this site. Somewhere nearer the beginning of the season I couldn’t find the total for Anchorage anywhere else.
Anne,
Thanks for the great info on Alaska. I’ll add it to the next post I make when I do an update in the next day or two. I was going to do an update the other day but saw that a storm was coming across the Great Lakes and decided to hold off. The reason being it takes about 3 hours to do a full update and I wanted to include this snowfall rather than trying to find six hours to update the stats twice. I don’t think any big snow was falling other than in AK so chances are Anchorage will be adding to the lead. Now that you/ak are finally giving up some of your cold air maybe the rest of us can start trying to catch ya’s
Good luck! You will all have a chance to catch up because we are in the midst of 10 days or so of clear cold weather here. I’m enjoying it although the temps are in the minus numbers between one and sixteen, but no shoveling!
How crazy is it that the top 5 from last year have not even received five inches of snow yet. South Bend, Indiana, where I am from has only received 3.9 inches, and they are not even calling for any snow in the 16-day forecast. I can’t remember a year when we have had no snow on the ground for Christmas AND New Year’s. Not even a trace. For snow-lovers life myself, this is depressing
Cory, I feel your pain and this season has been pretty lame to say the least. Here in the Syracuse area we have a slim chance of a white Christmas. Something we normally take for granted. I can only remember a few times when we haven’t had a white Christmas. Last year I couldn’t even get the lights up on the roof because we had too much snow and the ice built up on it. They are up this year but nothing looks the same without that nice bright snow
Cory, top 10 man. That cold air helped out a few of the cities including yours and mine (Syracuse). Now we need to keep it going
I got to SUNY Oswego, which takes a pounding from the lake each winter, but I root for Da Cuse. As a snow lover, by this time last season there was so much snow that I have to admit I started hating it a little. I just don’t understand what’s happening this year, its quite depressing
Calvin, I hear ya about depressing. Oswego hasn’t had too much snow either this season have they? My daughter graduated from there and man is it cold walking the campus. Hated visiting there sometimes because of the brisk winds coming off the lake. Right now it’s windy and snowy here in Syracuse and it looks like it’s been up North too so you must be getting some decent snow right now. Hopefully it will last now for the rest of the season.
Ken, no doubt there are many smaller cities that get a lot more snow than the bigger cities listed here. This site is based on cities with at least 100,000 population.
I absolutely LOVE the snow and winter! I have always wanted to move to a place where it snows a lot and the highest temp is around 70-80 degrees. It is something about a place that’s cold and snowey that creates a warmness in peoples hearts. I have heard that places like that are filled with people who care about people, there is a sense of comraderie and caring. I graduate next year and I would love to move to one of these places to start my career and life and hopefully, soon after, my family. Any suggestions?
Teresa, where are you from now. I’m a little bias so I would say Syracuse. Then again with only 0.7 inches of snow so far this season maybe not. I do love the Northeast though
I don’t believe this is correct unless you define “cities” by population??? A lot of towns/cities in the Rocky Mountains get much more snow than Syracuse. I live in Colorado and I’ve heard numbers in the 3 and 4 hundreds just last winter.
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@ Anon on Boonville : Boonville does get more snow than a lot of areas in NYS, but it is just out of the heavy snow belt areas. Places like Montague, Barnes Corners, Martinsburg, and Redfield get significantly more snow than Boonville. I would also say there are many years that Syracuse gets more snow than Boonville. I have spent many winters in Boonville, and often have to “trailer” to the snow for snowmobiling becuase of lack of it in Boonville.
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I live in syracuse and agree the smaller cities get more snow. I would just like to point out boonville, ny gets a ton more snow than any other city in the state. Actually it gets more snow than any city in the continental US.
Good job with the site, i enjoyed referring to it.
It was a very good winter we had lots of snow in the lower great lakes with nice cold temps. I can’t wait until next winter, I hope it’s as good as this winter was. I’m also glad I found this site it’s awesome!
Anon, just updated and once again sorry it’s been awhile. I think what I’ll try and do the rest of the season is look at the top 15 cities and at least try to get a couple of top 10 updates a week in.