First Day of Spring? 100 Inches of Snow in California
Today may be the first day of Spring 2011, but winter is back with a vengeance in all four corners of the country (minus Florida, of course). Check out these incredible 72-hour snowfall totals from ski slopes this weekend in California (update: added Sugar Bowl 3/22/2011):
Alpine Meadows, CA: 101" Sugar Bowl: 100" Mammoth Mountain, CA: 97" (70 inches in 2 days) China Peak, CA: 96" Soda Springs, CA: 90"
California D.O.T. webcams showed the heavy snow this afternoon:
These amounts have also been reported via NWS Spotters (72-hour totals shown on the map below):
Lake Alamanor, CA: 64" Frazier Park, CA: 48" (Drifts to 6 Feet!) Alpine Meadows, CA: 54"
Even elsewhere in the Rockies, things got cranking:
Bald Mountain, ID: 22.5" Cameron Pass, CO: 14" Heavenly Valley, NV: 12"
In the Northeast, fresh snow fell from the Poconos of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, northward into New England:
Coventry, NY: 5.1" Wantage, NJ: 4.7" Tobyhanna, PA: 4.7"
A map showing amounts as of 7 AM (to give you an idea of coverage) follows:
Meanwhile, at 3 PM it was 72 degrees in Pittsburgh (Facebook link to map)! And it's not the last storm -- another Tuesday Night and one more this weekend could blanket parts of the area with late-season snow.
