Using Forge 1.4.5-6.4.0.395 after cruising along in a snow biome chunks begin to load with out snow or ice cover in a checkerboard fashion, some times (Perhaps always?) if you continue in same direction chunks stop loading correctly all together (no bedrock just void, which you *can* fall off) then loaded chunks begin to disappear(despawn?)!
I first had a few mods installed so I tried taking them off one by one to see if they were the problem, in the end I deleted my entire Minecraft folder and started with a Vanilla Minecraft, generated a few worlds and checked out the snow biomes, no issues. Then installed ONLY forge loaded a few worlds and again had bad snow chunks.
Unfortunately I can't really tell if it is only snow biomes because there are no visual cues in other biomes.