Travelers can set their eyes on the snowiest city in the world by visiting the cozy town of Syracuse in Upstate New York. Once again, the city has captured the title of “snowiest city in the world,” where an average of 127 inches — over 10 feet! — of the white stuff falls each year. In November 2023, winds whipping up to 35mph accompanied the snow when the city was covered in blizzard-like conditions. Syracuse's heavy snowfall is due to lake effect snow from Lake Ontario, with systems often stalling over the region and dumping a foot of snow in as little as a day. One of the city’s most memorable storms was the Blizzard of 1925, which struck Syracuse between January 29 and January 31, covering the city in 27 inches of snow. However, that was minor compared to the “storm of the century” that took place during the Blizzard of 1993, when 43 inches of snow was dumped on the city, causing Cornell University’s first weather-related shutdown in more than 20 years. This year, Syracuse expects to use 30,000 tons of rock salt and over 100 snow removal trucks to handle the snowfall. It’s unclear just how much snow the city will get this winter, but the Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a much wetter winter for the area.
