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First Snow of the Year for Sierra Nevada, CA | Up to 6″ Above 8,000-Feet Tonight

Sierra Nevada, CA from space in 2011.

The first snowfall of the 2014/15 is on its way this weekend in the Sierra Nevada, California. NOAA is forecasting snow above 8,000-feet on Friday night and Saturday. Up to 4″ is forecasted on Sonora Pass, CA. It ain’t much, but we’ll take it. What it really means is that winter is on it’s way. Tahoe ski resorts will be opening as early as November 22nd and Boreal likely even earlier. Lets do this. Low pressure will move across the Sierra Friday Night and into central Nevada by Saturday. An area of rain and high elevation snow is forecast to develop on the north side of the low, leading to snow levels […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | September 26, 2014
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First SNOW of the Year for Tahoe | Photo Tour September 22nd

First snow for tahoe

As we reported last night, Tahoe has received it’s first snow of the year!  The Tahoe Basin received 2-5″ of snow yesterday afternoon/evening and we awoke this morning to blue skies and white blanketed mountain tops. There was even enough snow to cause chain chain control and a resulting traffic hold up on Highway 80. And we’re not done yet, there’s […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | September 22, 2013
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