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19 Feb, 2007 - Record Snowfall in Eastern North America After a slow start to the season, resorts on the Eastern side of North America have received huge snow falls in the past week, following more huge falls on the Western side of the continent. Sunday River in Maine is reporting its biggest snowfall in a 24 hour period for more than 15 years. The snow began falling in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine's Day and at times fell at rates of three inches per hour. By sundown 19 inches (47cm) of snow had forced many resort employees who found their cars buried to find alternate transportation. By last Thursday morning there was 34 inches (85cm) at mid-mountain. “It's our largest 24 hour snowfall since the early 1990's, which is when daily snowfall records were first reliably kept at the resort. There might have been a bigger one prior to then, but this is the largest 24 hour event even our 20 and 30 year employees can remember,” said Alex Kaufman, Sunday River communications manager. Sunday River employees received an internal memo at 9am from Resort president Dana Bullen instructing them to finish up morning duties hit the slopes in celebration of all the new snow. To the north in Quebec Stoneham and Mont Ste Anne were buried under more than 65 cm (32 inches). The latest falls take seasonal totals up to 280 cm at Stoneham and 255cm at Mont-Sainte-Anne. Both mountains have, by far, received to highest amount of snow precipitations of the nearly 100 ski areas in the province. www.mont-sainte-anne.com / www.ski-stoneham.com / www.sundayriver.com Source: Patrck Thorne www.snow24.com Back      Send this page to a friend

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