LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- This December has been a record-breaking month of snow for the Sierra Nevada mountain range in western United States, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Laboratory (CSSL) said Monday.
At the CSSL near Donner Pass in northern Sierra Nevada with an elevation of 2,100 meters, 492 centimeters of snow has piled up in the final month of 2021, scientists said.
"NEW DECEMBER RECORD: 492 cm. With a 24 hour official #snow total of 98.75 cm at the lab, we have smashed the previous record of 455 cm of snow in December set in 1970! Snow rates are still heavy and we could break 508 cms today!" CSSL tweeted.
"That snow was deep and hard to get through to do the measurement. It took us 40 minutes to get from the front door of the lab to where the measurement is completed 50 yards away!" it tweeted.
The CSSL is a research station specializing in snow physics, snow hydrology, meteorology, and climatology. Enditem
