Truckee, CA. Not a record, but a lot of snow in 2011. photo: garner white
All of these Snowfall records occurred in the Western USA. We suspect there are some pretty big numbers coming out of Alaska, but there’s no one there to record ‘em.
Single Day Snowfall Record = 76 inches (6+ feet)
Sliver Lake, Colorado
= 76 inches (6+ feet) in Sliver Lake, Colorado
- This storm didn’t stop after 24 hours, it raged for 32.5 hours straight and ultimately left 95 inches (8 feet) of snow, which is the record for one continuous snowfall.
- Silver Lake is at 10,220 feet and about 40 miles west of Denver.
- This record storm began at 2:30pm on April 14, 1921.
12-Month Snowfall Record = 1,225 inches (102 feet)
Mount Rainier is on the beach
= 1,225 inches (102 feet) at Paradise (5,400 feet) on Mount Rainer, WA from Feb. 19, 1971 – Feb. 18, 1972.
- Mount Rainer is 14,411 feet tall and averages 635 inches (53 feet) per year
- Minimum annual snowfall was 313 inches (26 feet)in 1939-40 (that is more than most ski resorts average)
- Maximum snowpack 357 feet (30 feet) in March 1955
- Heaviest snow occurs between 5,000 & 8,000 feet
- It snows every month of every year on this mountain
- Paradise on Mount Rainier is the snowiest place on Earth
- Stratovolcano 54 miles east of Seattle that is the most topographically prominent mountain in the lower 48
- Gonna blow up soon and is on the “Decade Volcano List“ and is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world
- 26 major glaciers that are fed by the copious amounts of snowfall
Snow Depth Record = 454 inches (38 feet)
Tamarack, CA
= 454 inches (38 feet) in Tamarack, California
- USA single month snow record of 390 inches (32.5 feet) in January 1911
- Sierra Nevada annual snowfall record at 884 inches (74 feet) in 1906-1907
- Tamarack sits at 6,913 feet near Bear Valley ski resort
Map of all 3 locations: Mount Rainier, WA, Tamarack, CA, & Silver Lake, CO
Damn, 76 in 24 hours. That’s nuts. I saw 98 inches in 48 hours at Kirkwood, CA in 2000. Craziness,
You forgot the greatest one of all time…Mt. Baker in Washington 1140 inches during the 1998/1999 ski season!
marketing numbers
Really? How so? Mt. Baker is not a destination resort, there is no lodging, no real facilities. It’s just a special place that is in one of the snowiest places on the planet….
As I suspected, not even close to marketing numbers…NOAA confirms it, see for yourself: http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases99/aug99/noaa99056.html
Maybe not exactly marketing numbers, but it wasn’t executed by snow scientists, just ski patrol.
@Tina – I guess it was too much to click on a link that was posted, so I cut and pasted from the link that states who validated the number:
“The Mt. Baker Ski Area in northwestern Washington State reported 1,140 inches of snowfall for the 1998-99 snowfall season. The figure was scrutinized by the National Climate Extremes Committee, which is responsible for evaluating potential national record-setting extreme events. The committee, composed of experts from NOAA, the American Association of State Climatologists, and a regional expert from the Western Regional Climate Center, made a unanimous recommendation to the director of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center to accept the figure.”
I don’t see the mention of “ski patrol” but I do see NOAA and other government agencies that validated and approved the number…so I must ask where did you get your information from?
Z, yes, yes! If the government says it, it must be true! You are clearly an extremely intelligent human being who has been well trained to obey. Obey away.
Where do I get my information? From my own deduction. Or do you think Mt. Baker Ski Area has the budget to hire snow scientist to drive the 1.5 hours from Bellingham come and give them once a day snow totals? Or do they just have the scientists on staff full time? Maybe they fly them in from Canada?
@Tina – You’re hilarious and impressive simultaneously! Yes indeed your “deduction” theory far exceeds my meager intellect, it is you that is an ‘extremely intelligent human being’. I mean seriously, it must be because I just accept what the government says, even though other sources validate the claim including Guinness World Records, but I digress, your overwhelming points of reference and sources to support you claim are all evident to see here right? Maybe you do know something secret, maybe you are a part of an underground eco-watch dog group that has secret information. After all because you ‘say it’s so’ it must be true, I just obey because I made my claims with a reference point…
Wow, great argument Tina. I guess it wasn’t true cause Tina chooses not to believe ANYTHING on the Internet. Dumb ass, get the fuck out. Let’s all just chose to be cynical about everything. None of this ever happened.
Idiots.
marketing fag!!!!!!!
Anonymously in the closet!!!!!
Anonymously closeted I bet.
i saw that pic you have labeled tamarack, ca last year somewhere else and it said it was meyers, ca sometime in early 80s i think
all you have to do is ask ski patrol. They record every bit of snow. Theres no science to this it is what it is. God brought the snow and it fell on Mt. Baker.
According to Guinness Mt. Baker Ski Area holds the record for most snow. http://classic.mountainzone.com/news/99/bakerrecord.html
You missed the Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl single-storm record: http://thestormking.com/Weather/Sierra_Snowfall/sierra_snowfall.html
irwin colorado has a measured 100 + inch 24 hour storm….
In the early 70′s I used to go with my brother (who was a meteroligist)to Tamarack to seed storms for the Mokelumne and american river basin. I saw the pictures and knew its relevance.Little did I know that we were seeding storms directly headed for Kirkwood, my second home now. I posted this last year during the big winter. As a crow fly’s, Tamarack is about 15 miles almostly directly southwest of KW.
Well, one night 1000 grams fell on my coffee table and it was all gone in 24 hours.
That has got to be a record?
Are you still awake from that storm?
Haha!!! Best comment on here.
The west gets the most consistent snow but where I grew up has set the record for rate of snowfall. In CA 2 inches an hour is a ‘whiteout’. Try 8+ inches an hour, you can not see your hand in-front of your face. Its hard to breathe, lake effect is no joke. 96 inches in 24hrs.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stormcenter/2007-02-10-ny-snow_x.htm
hahahh 2 inchs in the sierra s not consisderd white out by any means,,u lier…and withthat being said kirkwood is the nastiest place ive been throughout the sierra s
You’re honestly arguing that 2 inches an hour isn’t a whiteout? Even if the wind was dead calm visibility would be less than 500 FT and that’s never the case. Jim’s right, Lake effect is nothing to mess with. Get out of the sierras for once son.
live in lake tahoe douch bag ……the defination of lake effect snow stupid…!!!!!!and yes its in the sierras u ass
and the sierras is home to thousands of lakes stupid ass dude…jims wrong and so are you stupid ……and ive seen a foot an hour on more than one occasion ass
You guys are all a bunch of stupid Yanks. Eat Poo!
and yes 2 incehs is not considered white out from where im from …..maybe for all u gapers out there like dude….