After last week’s epic winter storm hit Southern California, new satellite photos from NASA Earth Observatory show snow covering the region’s mountains
hit Southern California, new satellite photos from NASA Earth Observatory show snow covering the region’s mountains.
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said we could see “a historically significant snowfall for parts of the Southern California mountains.” “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some parts of Southern California since the 1980s,”Data from the National Weather Service describe the incredible amounts of snow at various peaks as of 9 a.m. Sunday:
Mountain High Resort, sitting at a 7,000-foot elevation in the San Gabriel Mountains, had 93 inches of snow, or nearly 8 feet.Mt. Pinos, near Frazier Park in the Los Padres National Forest, saw up to 72 inches of snow, or 6 feet. The mountain is more than 8,500 feet high.
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