Season Snowfall Totals Top 300” (7.7 Metres) At Snowiest US Resorts

The current La Niña system that’s influencing weather around the Pacific may be a ‘weak’ version of the phenomenon, but the latest snowfall stats appear to indicate that she’s doing the business, two months into North America’s 2024 season.

The world’s deepest snowpack has topped 13 feet (four metres) at several ski areas in Japan, and now ski areas in the Pacific Northwest corner of North America have been shown top have had up to 25 feet of snowfall already this season.

Alaska’s  Alyeska Resort has had the most snowfall in North America, the first to post more than 300 inches -  304” in fact, or over 7.7 metres.

Timberline in Oregon, famous for its summer ski season usually lasting into August, is currently posting the deepest base in North America and has had the second most snowfall to date on the continent – some 270 inches (almost 7 metres) so far.

Mount Baker in Washington State, famed for holding the world record for snowfall 26 winters ago in the 98-99 season when it posted an incredible total of 1,140 inches (95.0 ft; 29.0 m), is in third spot so far this season. It’s had 254 inches (6.5 metres) to date.

Going back to Oregon for the fourth placed resort for 24-25 seasonal snowfall, Mount Hood Meadows has had 248” or 6.3 metres to date.

The going north of the border for the fifth most snowfall so far, Revelstoke in BC, home to Canada’s biggest lift served vertical, has also posted the most snowfall this season in the country so far. It’s had 244 inches (6.2 metres).