[STORMREPORTS] 19 Feet of snow in California is 90-year record
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The storm was the latest in a string of powerful systems that has dumped as
Reno-Tahoe International Airport was closed for 12 hours overnight for the
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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) - Offsite (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 09:41:11 EST
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/09/state1838EST0055.DTL>
"A moisture-laden winter storm piled snow deeper across the Sierra Nevada,
stranding an Amtrak train, knocking out the Reno airport and shutting down
major highways across the mountains.
much as 19 feet of snow in the Sierra and 61/2 feet in the Reno area since
Dec. 28. Forecasters called the series of storms the snowiest in the
Reno-Lake Tahoe area since 1916. The latest storm had left up to 61/2 feet
of snow in the Sierra and 21/2 feet in the Reno area.
second time in a week, and only the third time in 40 years, because plows
could not keep up with the heavy snowfall, spokeswoman Trish Tucker said."
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