Where does most snow fall?
Snow can fall wherever the weather is very cold, and it falls throughout the year in the Arctic and Antarctic.
Most snow falls in temperate climates during the winter, especially in the Alps in Italy and Switzerland and in the Rocky Mountains in the USA. In fact, almost every mountain range is associated with heavy snowfalls. Snow can even fall on the Equator on mountains more than 4,880 m high, where the air is very cold.
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How thick is the ice at the South Pole?
The thickest ice at the South Pole is 4,800 m deep — that’s ten times the height of a tall skyscraper. The ice covers a huge area of 14 million sq km, which is bigger than the whole of Europe. However, the land area under the ice is much smaller because the ice sheet extends out over the sea. Antarctica contains 90 percent of all the ice on the Earth. Scientists have calculated that should all this ice melt sea levels would rise by 60 m causing world-wide flooding.
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