See epic April snow conditions at Lake Tahoe resorts. Mother Nature isn’t joking
This week’s Sierra Nevada storm has dropped 30 inches of snow atop the mountain at Palisades Tahoe, the Lake Tahoe area ski resort announced Tuesday.
“Mother Nature wasn’t joking last night,” Patrick Lacey of Palisades Tahoe wrote in an April 1 email. “It’s not over yet.”
The resort shared video of the conditions.
Palisades Tahoe received 6 inches overnight at the base, and 8 inches up at the 8,000-foot elevation mark in the last storm. The late-March storm has dropped a total of 13 inches at the base so far. Snow showers are expected throughout the day to continue with breezy conditions.
For the entire month of March, some 97 inches of snow has fallen at the Palisades summit, bringing the ski resort’s total to 362 inches as of April 1. The average seasonal snowfall is 400 inches.
“Tuesday is the final day of the storm, with a final push of moisture into the region as the center of the low-pressure system off of the coast spins through (Northern California), according to the Palisades Tahoe weather blog. “That will bring steady snow during the day with snow showers into the evening before tapering off by early Wednesday morning.”
Temperatures remain cold, with highs in the 20s for the upper mountain and 30 degrees at the base. Ridgetop winds were gusting up to 60 mph Tuesday morning but were expected to slowly diminish.
All Lake Tahoe resorts are seeing great ski and ride conditions for spring. Heavenly Mountain reported 12 inches in the past 24 hours, bringing its seasonal snowfall total to 223 inches. Average seasonal snowfall for Heavenly is 251 inches, according to the resort.
