This Season’s Wild Snow Facts at Palisades Tahoe, CA: 55 Feet of Snow This Season and Counting With 13.4 Feet Falling in Past 11 Days Just when you thought this season couldn’t get any crazier at Palisades Tahoe… After a full-day closure yesterday due to a wet and hazardous atmospheric river snowstorm, Palisades has re-opened its lift operations today. Resort crews spent yesterday continuing digging out chairs, performing avalanche snow safety, addressing flood zones, and preparing for the for days ahead now that the mountains […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 15, 2023 2 Comments
A Photo Tour of the Buried Houses of Mammoth Lakes, CA This is how the town of Mammoth Lakes, CA, is looking right now after what feels like 1,000,000 atmospheric river events this season. Mammoth Mountain’s Main Lodge is currently sitting at 600″ of snowfall season-to-date. Enjoy these photos and try not to get drool on your screen… Related: How Chris Benchetler Turns Skiing into Art PHOTO TOUR (Courtesy of Peter Morning, […] SnowBrains | March 14, 2023 17 Comments
[PHOTOS] Main Lodge at Mammoth Mountain, CA, Surpasses 600″ of Snowfall This Season Another big storm ripped through the Eastern Sierra last week, bringing with it 54 inches of new snow to Mammoth Mountain. Snow totals this big at Mammoth seem like the norm this season and it’s become easy to forget that that is still a massive storm total. What a winter! Mammoth Mountain has since hit 600 inches of snow at […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | March 14, 2023 3 Comments
[PHOTOS] Updated California Storm Totals—Resorts Get Upwards of 5-Feet of Snow This Week and Counting The season-saving storm arrived in California on Sunday and dropped 5-FEET of fresh snow on most resorts in the Sierra Nevada this week. These are the storm totals so far… and snow is forecast to continue falling. Boreal – 57″ Dodge Ridge – 66″ Heavenly – 57″ (not updated yet) Homewood – 47″ Kirkwood – 70″ Mammoth – 62″ Northstar […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 15, 2021 0 Comments
[PHOTO ROUND UP] Record-Breaking Weather Event Slams Multiple California Ski Areas With Feet of Snow View this post on Instagram A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) California just recorded its strongest storm in modern history. The barometric pressure of the current storm system impacting California is 943 hPa—the equivalent to the central pressure of a strong hurricane. Local news authorities reported that the storm is so powerful that it blew over a semi-truck […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | October 25, 2021 1 Comment
SnowBrains Forecast: Massive Snow Totals Forecasted for California This Weekend, 30-40″ of Snow Likely in Lake Tahoe Area Forecast Summary: A moisture-rich atmospheric river event associated with a powerful mid-latitude cyclone is forecasted to bring significant precipitation to California this weekend. Most of Northern California will see rainfall totals between 3-12″ with the possibility of upwards of 60-70″ of snow in the High Sierra. Friday-Saturday: A preliminary band of moisture pushed through Northern California Thursday evening and Friday morning, dropping […] Weather Clay Malott | October 22, 2021 8 Comments
State Route 108/Sonora Pass, CA Closed Due to Heavy Snowfall State Route 108/Sonora Pass has been closed at Kennedy Meadows due to snow. State Route 4/Ebbetts Pass also has been closed due to snow, from the east end of Lake Alpine to Wolf Creek Road. Travelers are advised to seek alternate routes. “[IN THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AREA & SIERRA NEVADA]IS CLOSED FROM 7.2 MI EAST OF STRAWBERRY TO 5.3 MI […] SnowBrains | October 11, 2021 1 Comment
SnowBrains Northern California Forecast: Hold on Winter is Coming, Just Not This Weekend Forecast by SnowBrains Meteorologist Andrew Park 10/7/2021 8:00 PM MST Forecast Summary Tonight into Friday: A deep trough will move onshore tonight through Saturday, bringing rainfall and some snow to higher terrain surrounding Lake Tahoe. The majority of precipitation will occur this evening and into tomorrow, diminishing by Friday evening as the trough ejects east. Weekend: Cool, northerly flow will […] Weather Andrew Park | October 7, 2021 0 Comments
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