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Roughly ten inches of snow per inch of rain 🙂
Unless it's warmer, or colder, than 25* F, because warmer snow is denser, and tends to melt, and colder snow (below 12*F) can be much less dense, and pack in 12" of snow to 1" of rain…
Also the temp of the ground isn't air temp, and there will be a non-negligible melting as that equalizes. It would still be a metric fuckton of snow. Like, "let's go make a fort and have a snowball war," deep.
+Megan Faith Totally.
I was thinking 10' of snow would be "Get your snowboard and a ladder…" weather.
I'm with +Megan Faith
Been way to many years since I built a serious snow fort…
All I can think about the Calvin and Hobbes comics. <3
My buddy and I were debating earlier today and didn't come to a solid conclusion: would 20" of rain or the 20" equivalent of snow do more damage?
20" of rain-equivalent snow would be 80" of heavy snow to 200" of light fluffy snow.
Doing a little googling came up with this – the snow load requirements for Eagle County, Colorado.
http://www.eaglecounty.us/Building/FAQ/#5
Let's go with the 80" of moderately heavy snow, on the border between "light" and "packed" snow as an example.
http://www.nationwide.com/snow-load-barn-collapse.jsp
80" (6.66') of snow weighing 20 pounds per square foot is 133 pounds per square foot.
Applying the Eagle County Formula to a Denver roof at 5300', the design load for the roof is 21.78 pounds per square foot, which exceeds the design load by 501%.
7 feet of snow would likely collapse every flat roof (where the snow can't/won't slide off) in the Denver Metro area.