Alyeska Resort Passes 550 Inches Of Snow On The Season
Yesterday, Alyeska Resort, Alaska, announced it had surpassed 550 inches of snowfall this season.
The resort, a recent addition to the Ikon Pass, averages a whopping 656 inches of snowfall each season in its upper elevation areas, with lower elevations seeing less snow.
As of today, Alyeska has received 558 inches of snow this winter at the top of its Glacier Bowl Express chairlift, with ten inches of snow in the last 24 hours, according to the resort's snow report.
The National Resource Conservation Service reports that the Kenai Peninsula measurement area—where Alyeska Resort is located—had above median snow water equivalent totals as of yesterday.
Notably, snow water equivalents don't measure snow amounts. Instead, they measure the amount of liquid water in any given snowpack, meaning wetter snow could have a higher snow water equivalent than a larger quantity of drier snow.
Still, snow water equivalents provide an effective way to roughly gauge what any given snowpack is doing compared to previous winters. To hit that "above median" range, you need snow. And the higher reaches of Alyeska clearly have plenty of that to go around.
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