Weather is one of the most common topics of discussion as it affects all aspects of our lives. Climate change and extreme weather events seem to be occurring more frequent.

It’s easy to find the world’s driest, wettest, hottest and coldest places listed in reference books. But no weather annals, meteorological records books or weather stations will name the world’s snowiest town. The Mount Baker downhill ski area in the USA achieved the world's record for receiving the most snow in one year, when almost 3 meters of snow landed between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 1999. But where is the world’s snowiest village that’s also inhabited?

Meteorological data have revealed that towns along the Northern Alps get incredible amounts of snow every winter thanks to stalled weather patterns behind the mountains.

Snow recordings of a set of weather stations across Austria over a period of 5 years have shown that Damüls in the Bregenzerwald near Lake Constance is the world’s snowiest town with a median snowfall of 9.3 meters per winter season.