Tamarack, California

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Tamarack is a weather station in Alpine County, California which has been the site of United States meteorological records.

Tamarack has the snowfall record for one month. In January 1911, Tamarack received 390 inches (32.5 feet) of snow. [1] It also set the US seasonal snow depth record of 454 inches (37.8 ft.)measured on March 10, 1911.[1] During the winter of 1911 Tamarack was buried beneath a total of 767 inches (63.9 feet) of snow, most of which fell during that notorious January.[1] Tamarack also holds the California seasonal snowfall record of 884 inches.[1]

Tamarack is located on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, at an elevation of about 7000 feet.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum

Coordinates: 38°26′20″N, 120°04′34″W