Snowiest winter in recorded history for Anchorage, Alaska

[redrumloa]

While most of the country experienced an unusually warm and dry winter, Anchorage saw the snowiest winter ever.

An epic winter in Anchorage, became an historic one Saturday afternoon. With 3.4 inches of new snow falling since midnight, according to the National Weather Service, the city officially broke the all-time record of 132.6 inches of snow. That record snowfall came in the winter of 1954-55, before Alaska was even a state.

As of 4 p.m., 133.6 inches of snow had fallen on Anchorage during the winter of 2011-12.


That 11 feet of snowfall has caused thousands of dollars in home and commercial property damage across the city. It became fodder for the city's mayoral election. It prompted fights and lawsuits between neighbors over snowberms. It left city "snow dumps" bulging beyond capacity while running up millions of dollars of street-clearing and other fees for city government.