California’s Sierra Nevada has received nearly 16 feet of snow in 18 days, says weather.com. Snowpack has nearly doubled since late February,
Squaw Valley ski resort bragged that they had received 3½ feet (107 cm) of snow in 24 hours.
But it wasn’t necessarily great for would-be skiers.
It was”pretty insane week for snow in Tahoe,” said Jake Waldrop. “Legitimately too much snow for a ski trip.”
https://weather.com/news/news/2018-03-19-16-feet-snow-sierra-nevada-march
Thanks to Chris Von Duering and H.B. Schmidt for this link
“Look for that total to be near 22-24 feet by end of current storm,” says Chris
“Not surprisingly, no mention on the Weather Channel of how much snow will potentially fall, because back-to-back normal-to-above-normal snowpack years ruins their rhetoric about perpetual drought in the Western U.S.,” says H.B.
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