{"id":267227,"date":"2026-04-14T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267227\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:45:30","slug":"northern-sierra-records-significant-spring-snowfall-totals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267227\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Sierra records significant spring snowfall totals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SAC SNOW SKI TAHOE REPORT CHYRON PLACEHOLDER FRAME.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"Snow report illustration depicting a skier shedding the slopes in Tahoe.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A spring Sierra storm dropped more than a foot of snow in parts of the northern Sierra, according to a report from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center.<\/p>\n<p>Snow totals from automated gauges showed the heaviest snowfall in Alpine County, where Leavitt Lake recorded 15 inches and Ebbetts Pass measured 13 inches. Carson Pass and Monitor Pass each saw 9 inches.<\/p>\n<p>In Placer County, Palisades Tahoe reported 14 inches of snow, while the Central Sierra Snow Lab measured 12 inches. Tahoe City recorded 5 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada County also saw significant snowfall, including 12 inches at Independence Lake and 7 inches in Truckee.<\/p>\n<p>In El Dorado County, Forni Ridge recorded 10.1 inches of snow and Echo Peak measured 10 inches. Rubicon reported 8 inches, while Fallen Leaf saw about 6 inches.<\/p>\n<p>The snowfall totals are based on provisional data from automated gauges and have not yet been fully verified, according to the forecast center.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAC_0021_PK_20260121_BUSS.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nicole Buss\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spring Sierra storm dropped more than a foot of snow in parts of the northern Sierra, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-267227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}