Lake Tahoe Snowfall Totals & Photos: Up to 23″ of New Snow Lake Tahoe just got it’s first real storm of the 2014/15 winter season. It was a wet one with snow levels hovering around 7,500-feet for the most part. We had a Winter Storm Warning from 4pm Tuesday until 4am today. Sugar Bowl is the big winner again with 23″ of snow from this storm and shockingly, Kirkwood got the lowest snowfall numbers. Kirkwood got mostly rain and only ended up with 8 inches from this storm. We skied Squaw yesterday and it was raining to the top. Looks like today will be about the same as yesterday. We were soaked after about 2 hours of skiing. […] SnowBrains | December 4, 2014 1 Comment
Lake Tahoe, CA Snowfall Totals & Photos of Today | Up to 12″ Overnight: The first real winter storm that will actually leave snow in Lake Tahoe, CA hit last night. It dropped up to 12″ of snow in spots and as little as 3″ at Squaw. NOAA issued a Winter Storm Advisory that expired at 10am this morning. Sugar Bowl and Boreal are the winner of the snowfall totals at 9″ each. NOAA is reporting that Donner Summit got 12″ overnight. NOAA is talking about high elevation snow – snow levels 7,500 and higher – Tuesday and Wednesday with snow totals around 2+ feet. PRECIP AMOUNTS ARE STILL UNCERTAIN, BUT 2+ INCHES OF WATER IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE SIERRA CREST WHICH […] SnowBrains | November 29, 2014 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe = 2nd Worst Snow Year on Record | 44% of Average Lake Tahoe, California has recorded three low snow winters in a row. This winter, was the second worst snow year in recorded history. For skiers and snowboarders, it’s been a brutal experience.In 2011/12, Donner Summit, CA saw 322″ of snow putting that year at 81% of average, which doesn’t sound so bad. It was the fact that it didn’t snow at all until January 20th that made that season […] Weather Miles Clark | April 22, 2014 3 Comments
Top 10 North American Snow Totals This Past Week: There were some ridiculous snow totals in North America last week. We feel that it’s very necessary to report and celebrate these silly snow totals. It’s been a rough year for so many locales and now it’s time to party. Mt. Bachelor got nuked on. Tahoe went from zero to hero. Colorado went off. Washington is getting into it now. We know we likely missed someone in here (wolf creeks’ website has been down). Let us know who we missed […] Weather SnowBrains | February 12, 2014 6 Comments
Tahoe Storm Delivers: 18” Storm Total @ Kirkwood Kirkwood ski resort faired the best from this storm. Their base elevation of 7,800-feet had a lot to do with that. Kirkwood got 8” of new snow out of this storm at the base and 18” of new snow up top. Kirkwood has ruled out opening on Friday (they were talking about it yesterday), but hopes to open as soon as they can after Friday. Snowmaking equipment at Kirkwood is cranking out snow as we write this. […] Weather SnowBrains | November 21, 2013 5 Comments
Squaw Valley 2012/13 Season Break Down | 386” of Snow, 156 Ski Days, 132” in Dec. It was an interesting season in 2012/13 for Squaw Valley. It started out with a ‘bang.’ Squaw opened a week early due to November snow storms, we got 132” of snow in December, & then it kinda stopped. And we mean stopped. Squaw only got 76” of snow in Jan + Feb + Mar + Apr… Here’s a month by […] Weather SnowBrains | April 30, 2013 1 Comment
Who Got the Most Snow in 2012/13? We are just about at the end of snowfall season, so it makes sense to see who got the most snow this year in North America. The 2012/13 ski season was thin in spots and thick in spots. Too many of us ended up on the thin spots. The Pacific Northwest once again showed their ability to get snow […] Weather SnowBrains | April 24, 2013 15 Comments
Tahoe Storm Totals = 14 inches @ Kirkwood, 0 inches @ Squaw TAHOE STORM TOTALS: Kirkwood: 14″ Mt. Rose: 4″ Sugar Bowl: 4″ Boreal: 4″ Northstar: 2″ Alpine: 0″ Squaw: 0″ Today’s Forecast: Scattered rain and snow showers. Snow level rising to 6700 feet. Partly sunny, with a high near 46. West wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch […] Weather SnowBrains | April 1, 2013 1 Comment