After a very quiet beginning and middle of the west coast ski season, things have picked up big time in March. A particularly juicy storm has dropped several feet of snow just in the past week or so! As you can see in the table below, this latest storm has more than doubled the base snow depth at several resorts, in some cases much more than doubled. Additional snows locally up to a foot can be expected in the next couple of days before the pattern dries out.
Mammoth Mountain was the big winner with the current storm, reporting 88 inches (224 cm), or more than seven feet, in the past seven days. That brings them up to 141 inches so far for the month of March. Compare that to the 106 inches they had tallied through the first six months of the season (see graph below). The 35 inches the mountain saw on 22-March was a higher amount by itself than any previous month except for January (36 inches). The 141-inch total so far is already the fourth-most snowfall the Mountain has seen in March in the past 50 years with still another week to go.
