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Saw this going around on another website. It's the forecast for the summit of Mt. Shasta (14,179 ft). Check out those snow totals (and wind speeds). That's 176-218 inches of snow, in four days!

Per the following article, this storm system is threatening to break the record for the most snow fall in world history (a record that is already held by Mt. Shasta at 189 inches in six days):

How would that kind of four-day snow total stack up? Consider these major all-time snowfall records that would be broken with a 200-inch snowfall:

According to Weather Underground, the world record for a single snowstorm is 189 inches in six days -- guess where? Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February 1959.
The National Climatic Data Center says California's heaviest four-day snowstorm was 145 inches at the Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort near Echo Summit in March-April 1982.
The U.S. four-day snow record is 163 inches at Thompson Pass, Alaska, in December 1955.

If those numbers seem a little too hard to wrap your mind around, consider this:

The snowiest season on record in snowy Syracuse, N.Y., only yielded 192.1 inches of snow in 1992-93.
If the tallest living player in NBA history, Gheorghe Muresan, were to balance a life-size wax statue of himself on his head, two feet of snow would bury the top of the statue.
The minimum clearance for an interstate overpass in rural areas is 16 feet. A 218-inch snow depth would cover the highway up to the bottom of the overpass, with 26 inches of snow on top of that.
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http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/mount-shasta-snow-extreme-20121129
 
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