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Snowfall in Oregon is greatest in the Cascade Range. Based on data from ski resorts and a few official weather stations, average annual snowfall in the Cascades can range from 300 to 550 inches (760 to 1,400 cm). [3] The state's largest annual snowfall on record, 903 inches (2,290 cm), occurred at Crater Lake in the Cascades in 1950. [6]
The resort is the closest ski venue to Portland, with an elevation of 3,600 feet (1,097 m) at the lodge, rising to just over 5,000 feet (1,524 m) at the summit. The average snowfall at the area is 300 inches (762 cm), with an average consolidated base around 100 inches (254 cm) and 65 marked trails.
The list of snowiest places in the United States by state shows average annual snowfall totals for the period from mid-1985 to mid-2015. Only places in the official climate database of the National Weather Service, a service of NOAA, are included in this list. Some ski resorts and unofficial weather stations report higher amounts of snowfall ...
Average yearly snowfall: 325.3 inches. Average snowiest month: December (70.5 inches) Record snowiest day: Jan. 16, 1990 (47.5 inches) Record snow depth: April 15, 1929 (135 inches)
Portland, Oregon received nearly a foot of snow in a single day in what proved to be its second-snowiest day in history. Mountainous areas of California experienced nearly unprecedented snowfall ...
Climate data for Hood River, Oregon (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1893–present) ... Average snowfall inches (cm) 6.9 (18) 2.5 ... built in 1920 by Portland timber ...
The U.S. record is 12 inches in a single hour. That happened in a lake-effect snow band east of Lake Ontario in Copenhagen, New York, on Dec. 2, 1966, according to a list of record snowfall rates ...
Laurel Mountain is the fourth highest peak in Oregon's Central Coast Range with an elevation of 3,592 feet (1,095 m). The peak is located in Polk County west of the city of Dallas . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1997 it was labeled the wettest place in Oregon, [ 5 ] and in 1996 it set an all-time calendar year rainfall record for the contiguous United States ...