An impressive winter storm may have produced snowfall rates rivaling a long-standing world snowfall record from the 1920s in Italy last week. According to , 256 centimeters (100.8 inches) of snow was measured in about an 18-hour period in the town of Capracotta, Italy, on Thursday, March 5, 2015. Capracotta (population about 1,000) is located about 90 miles east of central Rome in the Apennine Mountains, at an elevation of 4,662 feet (1,421 meters) above sea level. The village of...