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″