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worst snowfall year

2014/15 = Tahoe’s Official Worst Snowfall Year on Record

Unhappy Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe just officially had it’s worst snowfall year on record. We just checked in with lead snow scientist Randall Osterhuber of the UC Berkeley Snow Laboratory on Donner Summit yesterday and he gave us the rough news. This year we’ve only gotten 126″ of snow at the Lab and the previous worst year on record was 182″ of snow. So, Congrats Tahoe, we did it. The worst snowfall season on record is now ours. Hopefully, this means that it “can’t get any worse.” Right? The UC Berkeley Snow Laboratory on Donner Summit is located at 6,900-feet and is home to the only accurate, scientific snow totaling system in […]

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SnowBrains | May 7, 2015
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