New Zealand’s 48-Inch “Big Friday” Snowfall | Photo Tour: New Zealand’s south isle ski resorts just got 1 meter (40″) of snow. Mt. Hutt got 120cms (48″)of snow and remained closed today due to avalanches, high winds, buried roads, and downed electric towers. They’re hoping to be open tomorrow. Coronet Peak and Cardrona are open today and the skiing looks damn good, especially for so early in the season. Treble Cone got 65cms (26″) of snow and they’ll be opening up next Thursday. Ski season is off and running in New Zealand. Having this much snowpack this early bodes well […] Weather SnowBrains | June 19, 2015 0 Comments
Top 10 Snowfall Totals for 2014/15 in the USA: This list is especially interesting this year since this was such a difficult winter for so many areas. The majority of North America saw below average snowfall, including the ski resorts below. That said, there were some zones that did better than others. Wyoming did well this year reaching 200 inches of snowfall early in the season and you can’t ignore the East Coast. The East Coast was famous for storms this year and some of those storms translated to big snow in the mountains […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 27, 2015 10 Comments
Lake Tahoe Ski Resort Snowfall Totals | Up to 17″ of New Snow Tahoe just got its biggest storm of the season. It was a big of a sneaker storm as only 4-12″ were forecasted by NOAA for this entire storm. Squaw has already gotten 12-17″ and it’s still dumping snow up there. The best part of this storm is that it’s cold and snowing to lake level. This is by far the most snow Tahoe has gotten down to lake level this year. NOAA has a winter weather advisory in effect until 8pm tonight. They’re calling for 1-4 more inches of snow above 7,000. Let it snow. […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | February 28, 2015 2 Comments
Top 10 Snowfall Totals in the USA: It’s been another fantastic snow season for the Rocky Mountain Range of the U S of A. Rocky Mountain ski resorts absolutely dominated this list taking 8 of the top 10 biggest snowfall totals in the USA this winter. The Teton’s have done especially well taking top honors in the snowfall category this year. Colorado is also having a great snowfall year putting three resorts in the top 10. Utah shows up strong as well with three resorts in the top 10 after getting 80+ inches of snow in a week over Christmas. These snowfall totals come from the ski resorts’ websites. Snowfall totals are from the upper mountain on January 25th at 11:59pm. […] SnowBrains | January 26, 2015 4 Comments
Top 15 Biggest Snowfall Totals for 2013/14 in North America In much of the Western USA, all we could talk about was how low a snow year it was. Tahoe only got about 180″ of snow this year. Taos had a rough one and so did a lot of ski towns. Looking at the numbers below, it’s hard to believe there was a low snow year anywhere. These numbers are all big and juicy. As long as you were anywhere near the resorts listed below, you had one heck of In much of the Western USA, all we could talk about was how low a snow year it was. Tahoe only got about 180″ of snow this year. Taos, NM had a rough […] SnowBrains | January 13, 2015 46 Comments
Lake Tahoe Snowfall Totals and Photos Today: Up to 22″ of Snow The “Severe” storm that was supposed to clobber Tahoe last night is widely being considered a dud. The main issue was that the wind shifted to coming from the South, which didn’t give it the power to get over the Pacific Crest and into the Tahoe Basin. West of the crest did very well with 12-16 inches being reported. The East side of the Tahoe Basin did poorly with only 3-5 inches being reported. At 4am today, it was snowing down to 4,000-feet and still raining in Truckee… In Tahoe City this […] Weather SnowBrains | December 12, 2014 1 Comment
The 10 Biggest Snowfall Totals In North America With nearly everyone in North America receiving snow this week, the snowfall totals are starting to rise. Some of the usual suspects out of the Pacific Northwest made the top of the list, while a few ringers out of Colorado are finding themselves near the top. Without further adieu we bring you the top 10 biggest snowfall totals in North America (As calculated as of March 3rd based on respective resorts snowfall tracking pages, compiled by hand at snowbrains.com)[…] SnowBrains | March 4, 2014 22 Comments
Lake Tahoe Snow Report & Photo Tour: It has begun snowing in Lake Tahoe today. Accumulations aren’t astonishing yet, but just seeing snow in Tahoe is a very good thing. Forecasts are still calling for up to 12” of snow above 8,000 between now and Thursday. We’ll just have to wait. In the meantime, lets have a look at Tahoe with snow: TAHOE SNOW REPORTS TODAY: […] Weather SnowBrains | November 19, 2013 3 Comments
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