Over seven feet of snow has piled up in parts of the Sierra Nevada over the past three days, the National Weather Service announced Wednesday morning.
Check out the stunning 72-hour snowfall totals for various locations in and around Lake Tahoe, courtesy of the weather service.
- Palisades Tahoe: 92 inches
- Sierra Snow Lab: 87.2 inches
- Soda Springs (Caltrans): 83 inches
- Kingvale (Caltrans): 68 inches
- Kirkwood: 67 inches
- Sierra at Tahoe: 63 inches
- Sugar Bowl: 62 inches
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An avalanche struck an apartment building in the Lake Tahoe area Tuesday evening, forcing residents to evacuate, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office. No injuries were reported.
Yosemite National Park, closed since Saturday because of heavy, blinding snow, postponed its planned Thursday reopening indefinitely.
The heavy snow was expected to end Wednesday afternoon after an additional 1 to 2 feet falls in the region, according to the weather service.
The University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory near Donner Pass reported that nearly 41.7 feet has fallen since October, more than in any snow year since 1970 and second only to the record of 66.7 feet in 1952.
Mammoth Lakes, traditionally one of the snowiest places in California, had nearly 4 feet of snow over the past three days. Snow drifts were taller than houses, and crews worked around the clock to keep roads and sidewalks clear.
The Sierra snowpack provides about a third of the state’s water supply and the water content of the snowpack Tuesday — in a state grappling with years of drought — was 186% of normal to date, according to the state Department of Water Resources’ online data.
