Severe blizzard blankets Moscow in decades-worth of snow
www.euronews.com
The Russian capital has been buried by unprecedented snowfall, causing chaos on roads and closing schools.
  • dan1101@lemm.ee
    38·
    11 months ago

    50cm of snow is considered a decades worth? That doesn’t make sense.

        • Verqix@lemmy.world
          12·
          11 months ago

          The title is bad, since Russia gets 150 cm of snow on a average every year. For this to be decades worth of snow you’d have to find 20 years of really light snowfall. It’s comparing 50 vs 3000 and saying 50 is larger. For this to be the heaviest snowfall in decades makes a lot more sense.

        • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 months ago

          We got 3’ in a day last year and we got less then others did. Then it melted by the next week. Lake effect is crazy.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Snow is weird. It didn’t build up linearly. I saw this whole YouTube video by Tom Scott or someone where they explain how measuring snowfall is such a folly

      • chaogomu@kbin.social
        16·
        11 months ago

        The article even says that the storm they got is roughly 1/5th of the standard December snow.

        So they got a bit less than 1-week’s worth of snow in a day.

        “Decades” and 1-week’s worth are not the same thing.