El Nino has been good to California this winter.  Our reservoirs are filling up, our snowpack isn’t too far below average (86% of average to date), and our ski resorts have gotten a helluva lotta snow.

California = 

• 2 ski resorts with over 500″ of snowfall
• 6 ski resorts with over 400″ of snowfall
• Sugar Bowl = 3rd largest snowfall total in North America
• 3 CA ski resorts in top 10 largest snowfall totals in North America
• 7 CA ski resorts in top 20 largest snowfall totals in North America

**all snowfall totals taken from ski resorts’ websites on April 4th, 2016.

CALIFORNIA SKI RESORT SNOWFALL TOTALS:

#1.  Sugar Bowl = 557″

#2.  Boreal = 506″

#3.  Squaw Valley = 462″

#4.  Sierra at Tahoe = 456″

#5.  Northstar = 444″

#6.  Alpine Meadows = 443″

#7.  Kirkwood = 435″

Other notable snowfall totals in CA:

• Mammoth = 342″
• Heavenly = 341″