There was never a let up in the snowfall mid-day yesterday.  The snow continued to fall into the evening.  Kirkwood is reporting another 25 inches in the past 24 hours for a storm total of 28 inches, and a 5 day total of 34 inches.  Alpine is reporting another 18 inches in the past 24 hours for a storm total of 26 inches, and a 5 day total of 33 inches.  Squaw is also reporting another 18 inches in the past 24 hours for a storm total of 25 inches, and a 5 day total of 32 inches.  

We were expecting Southwest of the lake to get hit hardest, but 25 inches in 24 hours was about 10 inches more than expected.  Along the crest 2+ feet was about 10 inches more than expected as well.  I split up the snowfall this Winter for Squaw into months.  You can see that after dismal amounts of snow through January the season got going in February.  September - 4, October - 19, November - 10, December - 23, January - 13, February - 99, March - 76, April - 54.  Squaw ended up with 66% of average snowfall up top at 298 inches, and Kirkwood had a decent finish with 77% of average and 409 inches.

The tables at Sugar Bowl are looking beautiful this morning.  Too bad they are closed.

Just down the street at the office we picked up 12 more inches bringing the storm total to 22 inches, and total for the week to 26 inches.  Now I need it to melt so I can do some landscaping. 

I was helping a friend in South Lake move yesterday and it snowed most of the day but wasn't sticking.  Then around 5 p.m. when we were unloading the last load the temperatures dropped and a quick couple of inches accumulated.  It looked like around 4-5 inches fell around Meyers and then around 2 inches for South Lake.  Driving up the East shore around 9 p.m. it was snowing and an inch or two of snow on the grough all the way up to Incline.  King's Beach only had a dusting but once over Brockway into Truckee another couple of inches was on the ground all the way into Glenshire.  I am assuming the West shore up through West Truckee did even better.

We should see sun today with cold temperatures and some clouds around.  It is going to be one of the best powder days of the season ironically.  Just watch for rocks under the snow if you are going off trail.  We could see some light snow showers on the mountains tomorrow as a weak system moves through to our North.  

Next week we warm up with highs near 70 at lake level by Friday.  We may see some active weather the 2nd week of May, maybe some rain to help with the dry conditions.

Well I can't waste anymore time sitting here.  I am off to Alpine to get some of the goods.  I will post some final season stats in May and will post if any snow shows up in the forecast.  Until then thanks for reading this season! (you stopped by the page over 2 million times)  It was not a very good snow season and definitely not a good start, but a nice finish!  Pray next year is much better!

Signing off for now.....BA