8/24/2023 0 Comments Storm totals tahoeWe need the storms to continue through the winter. Corky Beall surveys floodwaters on College Road in Watsonville, Calif., Friday, March 10, 2023. “If I had to emphasize one point, it’s that the drought’s not over. Atmospheric rivers hit California with heavy rain and snow. “It’s been a pretty impressive December,” McEvoy said.īut, he cautioned, it’s possible for drought conditions to resume. It will also help keep the snowpack for area ski resorts in good shape, even if the region runs into a dry spell. “That’s good for both water content and avalanche concerns,” McEvoy said. Earlier storms were wetter with higher elevation snow, but then temperatures and snow levels dropped. 'Unrelenting': Record cold and massive snow plague the West as Southern US basks in holiday heat waveĭecember’s storms came in “forming a right-side-up snowpack,” he said. The National Weather Service reported up to two feet of snow from the storm earlier this morning. The median peak average is 27 inches, and today 16.1 inches of snow water equivalent was measured, he said. Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort is reporting 95 mph wind gusts at the crest of the Sierra Nevada. The Lake Tahoe Basin is sitting around 200 percent of average for snow water equivalent – the amount of water that will be released from the snowpack when it melts – for this time of year.Īnd the Basin is sitting at 60 percent of its peak average snow water equivalent, which occurs around late March or early April, McEvoy said. Seen here is a sign for Spooner Summit Dec. 26, 2021, a day after a Christmas storm left more than 7 feet of snow in some locations. Snow continued to make travel nearly impossible over mountain passes on Dec.
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