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With all the talk I am hearing of “where is the snow” I thought it might be a good time to look back on pass seasons snowfall totals.

The Snow King is a great website that provides snowfall totals and records for the Sierra’s as well as the rest of the US

Sierra Nevada Snowfall Records as of October 2004

Echo Summit, California
Second heaviest U.S. 24-hour snowfall record: 67 inches (5.6 feet) January 4-5, 1982 ^1,2

Mount Shasta Ski Bowl, California
U. S. single storm snowfall record: 189 inches (15.75 feet) February 13 – 19, 1959 ³

Tamarack, California
U.S. snowfall record for one month: 390 inches (32.5 feet) January 1911

Tamarack, California
U.S. seasonal snow depth record: 454 inches (37.8 feet) March 1911

Donner Summit, California
U.S. snowiest April: 298 inches (24.8 feet) April 1880 ⁴

Tamarack, California
Sierra Nevada record snowfall during one season:
884 inches (73.7 feet) 1906-07 ⁵

Top Three Snowstorms USFS Central Sierra Snow Laboratory (CSSL) ⁶

• March 27 to April 8, 1982 — 15.5 feet
• January 20 to 31, 1969 — 13.7 feet
• January 10 to 17, 1952 — 12.8 feet

(Twelve other snowfall events at the CSSL have each dumped nearly ten feet, with a mean storm-duration of 11.4 days. Snowstorm totals greater than six feet are not uncommon.)

Top Three 24-hour Snowstorms at the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory

• February 3, 1989 — 52 inches
• October 21, 1967 — 46.5 inches
• February 19, 1980 — 46.1 inches

Top Three Maximum Snowdepths at the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory ⁷

• March 19, 1952 — 20.57 feet
• March 25, 1983 — 15.71 feet
• February 24, 1993 — 14.17 feet

INFO PROVIDED BY THESNOWKING.COM

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