Two thousand eight hundred ninety-five centimeters of snow fell at the Mount Baker Ski area in the northwestern state of Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Still,the National Snow and Ice Data Center says the most recent September measurement was the third lowest since nineteen seventy-nine.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

By early February, this winter had already broken them with one hundred forty-two centimeters of snow measured.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

About fifteen centimeters of wet snow has as much water as two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

In the western United States, mountain snow provides up to seventy-five percent of all surface water supplies.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

About seventy-six centimeters of dry snow equals the water in two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

In nineteen thirty-six, a physicist from Japan produced the first man-made snow in a laboratory.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

During the nineteen-forties, several American scientists developed methods for making snow in other areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Snow crystals grow in one of two designs - plate-like and columnar.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

They could see the snow-covered mountains and huge amounts of blue ice.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

He sat on a snow-covered log and ate his lunch.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

He began to walk on the snow-covered ice.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Groups of frozen water-droplets are called snow pellets.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

But the snow does melt. Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers -- the Gila River,the Green River, the Little Colorado,the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison Rivers.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

(Talking) A weekend blizzard dropped hip-deep snow on much of the eastern United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

told a story of an incident that happened shortly after he lost his leg to cancer at age 12, when his father helped him up an icy, snow-covered hill,telling him "There is nothing that you cannot do."

VOA: standard.2009.08.29