Largest snowflake EVER....(Funny snow facts)

**unofficialandes** · 08-23-2007, 11:49 AM

Wilson ‘Snowflake’ Bentley took over 6,000 photographs of individual flakes between the early 1880’s and his death in 1931. No two were alike.
-Large snowflakes can measure up to 2" across and contain hundreds of individual crystals.
-The largest snowflake ever found was 8" by 12". It was reported to have fallen in Bratsk, Siberia in 1971.
-In Germany, frogs were once kept as pets because they croaked more loudly when air pressure fell and when bad weather was coming. They acted like primitive living barometers.
-An ice core 1,200 feet long can show what the climate was 1,400 years ago.
-The lowest ever temp recorded was at Vostok, a research base in Antarctica on July 21, 1983: -128.6°F.
-The heaviest snowfall in 24 hours is 76" at Silver Lake, CO 4/15/21
-The heaviest snow storm occurred on Feb. 13-19, 1959 at Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl, CA: 189" of snow fell.

"Guinness reported that the largest snowflake ever measured was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, observed in 1887 at Fort Keogh, Montana. Ranch owner Matt Coleman took the measurement and he later described the snowflake as being "larger than milk pans" in the journal Monthly Weather Review."

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**SponsoredByDuctTape** · 08-23-2007, 01:24 PM

Where'd the info come from? I'm not sure I believe the "heaviest snowfall" amount. Seems like somewhere on the west coast would be able to beat that.

**StroupSkier** · 08-23-2007, 01:32 PM

Why are there 2 different measurements for the largest snowflake?

**summit21** · 08-24-2007, 06:14 AM

Second greatest United States 24-hour snowfall record: 67 inches (5.6 ft.) January 4-5, 1982. The old California record of 60 inches in 24 hours was recorded at Giant Forest in the southern Sierra Nevada in January 1933.

The North American and world records are held by Silver Lake, Colorado, which received 76 inches (6.3 ft.) in 24 hours on April 14-15, 1921.

Montague, New York, located just east of Lake Ontario, reported 77 inches in 24 hours on January 11-12, 1997. The measurement was disallowed, however, after the National Climate Extremes Committee determined that the total of 77 inches was achieved by adding six measurements together, two more than the maximum allowed during any 24-hour period.