UC Berkeley’s Sierra Snow Lab near Tahoe reports May 5 a record day for snowfall.
“Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?
This storm dropped 26.4″ (67 cm) in the last day, making May 5th the snowiest day of the season at the lab. It beat 2nd place (March 3rd) by 2.6″ (6.5 cm)!”
The lab reports another bump for this water year’s snow water equivalent: 157% of median SWE to-date!
The late season storm added precipitation to Shasta Dam’s water year with another 1.64 inches for May 4 and 5. For the water here, Shasta has received about 67 inches compared to 78 in the year before, the big AR year.
On May 5 Yosemite saw .87 and Huntington Lake got 1.06 in. Pine Flat received .56 and Giant Forest 0.67.For the water year Giant Forest on the Kaweah received 35 inches,near the 43 inch average but well, below last years 92.5 in. Springville got .63 for there early May event.
On the Valley floor, things were less interesting with Fresno getting about one third of an inch.