The town of Capracotta is situated to the east of Rome and sits an an elevation of around 4600 ft above sea level, and, surprisingly, is not even located in the Italian Alps, where one might expect such a heavy amount of snow to fall. The snowfall measurement has yet to be confirmed, but if it is, it would shatter the previous 24-hour-snowfall record-90 inches of snow on Mount Ibuki in Japan in 1927-by ten inches, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The US record is verified to be 75 inches of snow in 24 hours at Silver Lake, Colorado, in 1921.
The snowfall amount in Capracotta would actually be more than Boston received during the months of both January and February combined. Photographs of the snow storm went viral across the web, including the above picture, which purportedly shows a man greeting his neighbor in her second floor apartment window and shaking her hand while standing atop a mammoth snow drift.