Do you remember when the climate scientists predicted that “snow would be a thing of the past”?
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” Dr. David Viner, a scientist with the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, told the UK Independent in 2000.
That was then. This is now.
(California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington.) Totals will continue to grow through Thursday.Snowfall totals this season now exceed 200 inches in many locations of the Sierra Nevada, which straddles the California/Nevada border, and the Cascades.Alpine Meadows, CA ……………..227 inches
Mammoth Mountain, CA……… 203 inches
Mount Rose, NV………………………325 inches
Squaw Valley, CA…………………… 225 inches
Stevens Pass, WA………………….. 208 inches
Mt Hood Meadows, OR……….. 243 inchesThe totals will continue to grow through Thursday as more moisture pipes through the region.
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Impressive looking map of the current snow depth in the Sierra as analyzed by NOAA.
Via Weather.com