STUDY ON THE EVALUATION OF SNOW LOAD IN CAPITAL REGION IN FEBRUARY, 2014

Abstract

During 14^th to 16^th of February in 2014, the heavy snow and snowstorm caused damage to buildings in the capital region. This sequential snowfall featured the record snow in North capital region and heavy rain after snowfall in the capital plains. Based on the hourly meteorological records, the authors proposed the snow load estimations for the remaining snow and for the snowfall and rain afterwards. According to the estimations for the annual maximum snow load records of the capital region since 1961 to 2014, it turned out that the snow load was significantly influenced by the rain load after snowfall.