Tamarack, California
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Tamarack is located at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".,1659952-2|[2] on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada near Bear Valley and south of South Lake Tahoe.
Climate
The Tamarack weather station was located at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert". ("upon the Summit" according to the first observer) and operated by PG&E employees from 1903 to 1948; its exact location is uncertain, but it is believed to have been located between Lower Blue Lake and Tamarack Lake, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Kirkwood Ski Resort. Here, the greatest snow depth ever recorded was measured at the Tamarack station: in January 1911, Script error: No such module "convert". of snow fell, leading to a snow depth in March of Script error: No such module "convert"..[3][4] Tamarack also holds the record for greatest seasonal snowfall in California: during the winter of 1906−1907, it received Script error: No such module "convert". of snow.[3][4][5]
Tamarack has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dsc) with mild to warm summers coupled with chilly nights and moderately cold winter days with frigid nights and extremely heavy annual snowfall averaging Script error: No such module "convert"..
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References
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- ↑ a b Christopher C. Burt, Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book, page 77: "...the deepest snow depth ever recorded in North America, belongs to Tamarack, California. Here, not far from the Kirkwood Ski Resort, 390ʺ fell in January 1911. This led to a level snow depth of 451ʺ (37.5 feet) by March of that year. Tamarack also holds California's greatest seasonal catch on 884ʺ in the notoriously wet winter of 1906-1907."
- ↑ a b Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum
- ↑ Charles Nevers Holmes, In New York City Were the Snowiest Place, in Tychos (1920), page 20: "And, at Tamarack, California, about a mile and one-half above sea level, there was a record of a snowfall of 73 1/2 feet which fell during the winter of 1906-1907. Now, a snowfall of 73 1/2 feet, of 883 inches, is certainly considerable..."
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