Watertown, NY?

My husband swears that outside of monutain towns it's Syracuse NY, where he grew up. Something to do with lake effect snow

I would guess a mountain area. Colorado or the High Sierras (Nevada/California).

O canada!

Barrow Alaska, it is the northern most US city, and it gets snow.

I thought it would involve lake effect snow and I was right. Here's what Wikipedia says about it: Lake-effect snows on the Tug Hill Plateau (east of Lake Ontario) frequently set the daily records for snowfall in the United States. Syracuse, New York is directly south of the Tug Hill Plateau and receives significant lake-effect snow from Lake Ontario (although less than the Tug Hill Plateau by as much as 200 inches (508 cm)). In fact, Syracuse receives so much snowfall it is often considered the "snowiest" large city in America, averaging 115.6" (293.6 cm) of snow a year. Syracuse has frequently won the "Golden Snowball" award, a NOAA regional contest for greatest annual snowfall among large Upstate New York snowbelt cities. The communities of Redfield in Oswego County and Montague and North Osceola in Lewis County, all on the Tug Hill Plateau, average over 300 inches (762 cm) of snow a winter, with more than 400 inches (1,016 cm) falling during harsh winters. A 24 hour record for the contiguous United States occurred on January 11th-12th 1997 when 77" (196 cm) of snow fell in Montague, a total of 95 inches (241 cm) of snow falling in that storm between the 11th and 14th. (Source, National Weather Service, Buffalo.) In February, 2007, a prolonged lake-effect snow event left over 100 inches (254 cm) of snow on the Tug Hill Plateau. And on a personal note, I have been in the Mammoth Lakes area of CA when there has been 35 FEET of snow on the ground. And once near Lassen National Park, there was over 75 FEET of snow on some of the passes that never melted the whole summer.

Buffalo