When stationed at Eglin, I used to get a kick at the huge piles of snow that were occasionally dozed out of the McKinley Climatic Lab.
The Building 440 is an insulated, refrigerated hangar. There is an office and instrumentation building, a cold-weather engine test cell, the refrigeration system, mechanical-draft cooling towers, and a steam-heating plant
The All-Weather Room is 42 feet (13 m) by 22 feet (7 m). It has a temperature range from −80 °F (−62 °C) to 170 °F (77 °C). Rainfall can be as high as 15 inches (380 mm) per hour and the wind can be as high as 60 knots (31 m/s). Snow can be made in the chamber.
When I worked at Eglin, they often tested snow tires in the lab during the summer.
Was stationed at Tyndall in the 50’s and often visited Eglin. The chow was better at Tyndall.