UC Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Lab Records Snowiest December on Record

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December has been a period for the grounds books erstwhile it comes to Sierra snowfall.

At the University of California, Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Laboratory adjacent Donner Pass, 193.7 inches – implicit 16 feet – of snowfall has piled up successful the last period of 2021, breaking the aged grounds of 179 inches acceptable backmost successful 1970, according to the lab.

For our metric friends! (sorry we forgot)

NEW DECEMBER RECORD: 492 cm

With a 24 hr authoritative #snow full of 98.75 cm astatine the lab, we person smashed the erstwhile grounds of 455 cm of snowfall successful December acceptable successful 1970!

Snow rates are inactive dense and we could interruption 508 cms today!

— UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab (@UCB_CSSL) December 27, 2021

Thanks to dense snowfall successful the forecast, the laboratory could spot that monthly snowfall full surpass 200 inches arsenic soon arsenic Monday.

The National Weather Service said a winter tempest informing for the Sierra volition stay successful effect until 9 p.m. Monday.