The Sierra Nevada mountains were walloped this week by one of the biggest storms in decades, with some areas seeing more than 10 feet of new snow.
UC Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory tallied 111 inches of snowfall over the past five days, making for the snowiest five-day stretch in over 40 years. The only snowier periods were in December 1970, with 113 inches, and April 1982, with 118.5 inches.
The recent snow has been unusually powdery: the 25.6 inches that the snow lab received on Wednesday had a snow-to-liquid ratio of 21:1. The Sierra typically sees ratios of 8:1 to 10:1, which corresponds with heavy, wet snow – widely known as Sierra cement.
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