Western Railroad Discussion > Donner snow

Never thought I'd be asking this in the middle of June, but hoping someone is up there taking pics of this late snow storm event. As of 3:30 am, I-80 looks to be covered over and it's coming down good at Soda Springs. Been watching the I-80 cams all day and it's been off and on, with a stronger cell moving over now.

Jason

On the Truckee web cam the trees have a dusting. as of 1 minute ago.

Presently at Donner Lake looking across at Andover. Misty and cold but no snow visible. I dont plan on going to the summit until tomorrow (family trip)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/17 16:31 by PittsburghMike.

Update: As the snow has cleared, I can see up from Truckee to the summit. Looks to me like the snow line is probably in the vicinity of Eder. Not a bad afternoon looking up at trains from our lodge on the lake...starting about 1500..Amtrak 6 went east, a short Z train went west, 2 empty grain east and a salad shooter west.

Six inches of new snow on the ground at Norden this morning brining the seasonal total to 570"

This was shot this afternoon at Soda Springs by Tom Applebaum. If you look carefully you can see the Main line thru the trees. Here it is 9 days from the beginning of summer, and the ground is still covered at 6700 ft. There are drifts up to 4 feet here in the forecast. UP Meteorologist Mike Pechner

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> Six inches of new snow on the ground at Norden
> this morning brining the seasonal total to 570"


Is that a record for June? Not in my decades of monitoring Donner weather have I recalled this...

I drove up to Norden Sunday afternoon to meet up with a friend. It was interesting weather to say the least. Leaving the Bay Area Sunday, it was broken clouds and cool for June, but nothing particularly interesting. By the time I got to Rocklin, it felt like I was driving in the Arizona desert. One minute, the sun was out, the next, I was getting heavy rain. I saw one major lightning strike near Rocklin as well. Rained off and on until Blue Canyon, where I briefly got into heavy, heavy snow flurries. But then upon reaching Emigrant Gap, it was a light rain again. I first observed it sticking around Troy. Sunday night saw a decent amount of snowfall, then it stopped, but we woke up Monday morning to even more snow. In some spots, darn near 6 inches was on the ground, but in others, barely an inch at all. A good amount of snow was in the trees all morning, but it was melting fast by early-afternoon and all but gone late afternoon yesterday. Heavy, heavy fog came in the early afternoon as well. When Amtrak 5 was blowing for the crossing at Soda Springs, you couldn't even see its headlights yet. The fog all started to clear in the early evening. I imagine all the snow that did fall is long gone by now.