Snow!!!
Got your attention, didn't it?
Just sitting here getting anxious to go camping and thinking about snow. Although I no longer live in snow country, it made me curious, so I searched for Syracuse NY, where I grew up. Sure enough, the "Salt City" makes the top of the list of 101 cities with >50K population with highest average snow (just under 120" a year). Multiple "winner" of the Golden Snowball Award (competition in upstate NY cities for most snow). One the current top 10 snowiest US cities.
A couple other brief factoids... Syracuse gets more snow, on average than Buffalo -- the latter makes the news since they get snow in fewer larger storms. And, despite what you might think, Syracuse is called the Salt City not for the amount spread on the roads in the winter but rather for the salt deposits. Folks familiar with the area know that the "real" snow is in the Tug Hill area, where snowbanks reach the power lines and there are two garages -- the summer garage by the house and the winter garage down by the road.
That said, we got snow in Virginia Beach this winter, so it must be time to head south!
Just sitting here getting anxious to go camping and thinking about snow. Although I no longer live in snow country, it made me curious, so I searched for Syracuse NY, where I grew up. Sure enough, the "Salt City" makes the top of the list of 101 cities with >50K population with highest average snow (just under 120" a year). Multiple "winner" of the Golden Snowball Award (competition in upstate NY cities for most snow). One the current top 10 snowiest US cities.
A couple other brief factoids... Syracuse gets more snow, on average than Buffalo -- the latter makes the news since they get snow in fewer larger storms. And, despite what you might think, Syracuse is called the Salt City not for the amount spread on the roads in the winter but rather for the salt deposits. Folks familiar with the area know that the "real" snow is in the Tug Hill area, where snowbanks reach the power lines and there are two garages -- the summer garage by the house and the winter garage down by the road.
That said, we got snow in Virginia Beach this winter, so it must be time to head south!
