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The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, located at Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada, reported no snowfall in the past 24 hours as of Tuesday.
By the time the storm is over Sunday, Donner Pass — named for the ill-fated expedition that became stranded by snow in the 1840s — could get between 5 and 10 feet of snow.
A Caltrans tow truck is surrounded by snow along a closed Interstate 80 near Donner Pass on Saturday, March 2, 2024, after authorities shut down the major freeway due to whiteout conditions.
delays occurred and when the party reached this locality, on october 29, the truckee pass emigrant road was concealed by snow. the height of the shaft of the monument indicates the depth of the snow, which was twenty-two feet. after futile efforts to cross the summit the party was compelled to encamp for the winter.
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972.
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
The snow will begin to intensify across northern and central portions of the Sierra on Thursday night into early Friday morning. ... Donner Pass: 5-10 feet. Blue Canyon: 4-7 feet. Lake Tahoe: 3-6 ...
Snow depth peaks at 93 inches (236.2 cm) during March. Soda Springs is listed as the snowiest place in the state of California and one of the snowiest census-designated places in the world. Climate data for Soda Springs, California, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1913–1959