Alpine Meadows

Alpine Meadows picked up 7 inches overnight up top.  That brings the season total to 124 inches up top.  This is cold and fluffy snow which continues to fall today as low pressure spins down the CA coast.  The 7 inches was measured early this morning so it is deeper out there now and storm [...]

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The upper level ridge is still sitting off the coast and we will continue to see dry and mild conditions into Tuesday. Meanwhile the ridge will begin retrograding Westward by tonight allowing the next storm to dive down the West Coast with lots of cold and some snow for Wednesday. On the upper elevations where [...]

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A ridge of high pressure is parked off the coast keeping away the storms and providing us with plenty of sunshine through the beginning of next week. There is lots of snow up high to enjoy this opening weekend from the storms last weekend. The ridge of high pressure will begin to move back away [...]

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The cold front blasted through a lot faster than expected yesterday morning and there was a sharp cut-off to the precip behind it.  Alpine Meadows picked up another 9 inches in the past 24 hours at the summit bringing the storm total to 35 inches. We even picked up a few inches at the base. [...]

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The snow levels jumped overnight but are now falling as the heavy precip moves in this morning. It is snowing hard at the summit and it will be snowing all the way to the base by this afternoon. We could see another 1-2 feet of snow at the summit by tonight with several inches possible [...]

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Another 14 inches fell on the mountain in the past 24 hours bringing the 3 day storm total to 26 inches. Alpine Meadows has already picked up close to 25% of the annual average up top. It is still snowing lightly this morning and we could pick up several more inches today. Tonight a strong Pacific storm moves in. Snow [...]

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