This photo provided by the California Highway Patrol Truckee Division shows only the peaked roof of a structure visible, buried in snowdrifts in the Donner Pass area of the Sierra Nevada just west of Truckee, Calif., that remained closed Wednesday morning, Feb. 27, 2019. The California Department of Transportation reported that a Sierra maintenance yard above 6,000 feet had received 30 inches of snow on Tuesday. Several mountain and foothill roads were repeatedly closed because of whiteout conditions or to clear trucks and cars that spun out on the slippery pavement. The fierce weather was driven by a river of atmospheric moisture stretching from Hawaii. (California Highway Patrol via AP)
UC Berkeley is reporting a record amount of snowfall in the Sierra Nevada this month. The university’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory announced Monday that more than 193 inches of snow has fallen at the lab near Donner Pass, which is an all-time high for the month of December. The previous December record was 179 inches in 1970. With snow rates still heavy in the area, the lab says it could reach 200-inches later today.