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This winter has been a boon for ski resorts in California with plenty of powder to go around, and at one resort, the snow has reached new heights. Over 600 inches (50 feet) of snow has fallen on ...
Mountain towns, which were inundated with snow in last year's record-breaking winter, had seen just a fraction of last year's precipitation. The NASA image below zooms in on the region, again on ...
Major ski areas were closed from Lake Tahoe to Mammoth as a blizzard hit California's Sierra Nevada with heavy snow and high winds.
A dangerous winter storm is slamming Northern California with rare blizzard conditions and fierce winds as it threatens to unload up to 10 feet of snow in the mountains and snarl travel.
Heavy snow returns to the mountains Wednesday - early Friday. A Winter Storm Watch is in effect for elevations above 5000 ft. Travel delays, snow covered roads, reduced visibility from gusty winds ...
2008-12-31 19:25 Tillman 720×720× (268591 bytes) Breckenridge and Copper Mountain Ski Slopes, Colorado Astronaut photograph ISS018-E-5353 was acquired on October 24, 2008, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera fitted with an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the
Of the most prominent summits of California, only Mount Whitney exceeds 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic prominence. Five peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), nine peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 35 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
Some areas of the Sierra saw more than 7 feet of snow in a 72-hour period, according to the National Weather Service, including Sugar Bowl, California, which received 89 inches (7.42 feet) and ...