A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe is now in the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record. FOX13
Dogs play next to walls of snow in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party when the pioneers were trapped atop the Sierra Nevada for months and dozens died near Lake Tahoe in the winter of 1846-47.
A team working inside a nearly 18-foot-deep snow pit at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab take measurements of snow temperatures in Soda Springs, Calif. "We’ve seen bigger storms in other years and years with higher snow water equivalent totals ... but the relentlessness of this season is likely what makes it most unique," said Andrew Schwartz, the lab's manager and lead scientist."Historically, some of our big seasons have continued to be active right on through the end of spring," said Tim Bardsley, the senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Reno.
Several of the snowiest winters logged at least one-fourth of their season total after March 15. What's now the fourth-snowiest winter in 2010-11 received 225 inches of its 643 total inches — or 35% — post-March 15. Ten major storms dumped rain and snow on the mountains the first two weeks of November 1846. The monument at Donner Memorial State Park indicates the snow depth reached 22.5 feet before some of the stranded resorted to cannibalism.
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