Sierra Snow Report: More than 7 feet of snow in 72 hours

The National Weather Service announced on Wednesday morning that parts of the Sierra Nevada had received more than seven feet of snow in the past three days.

View stunning 72-hour snowfall data for locations in and around Lake Tahoe provided by the Weather Service.

• Palisades Tahoe: 92 inches
• Snow Lab Sierra: 87.2 inches
• Soda Springs (Caltrans): 83 inches
• Kingvale (Caltrans): 68 inches
• Kirkwood: 67 inches
• Sierra in Tahoe: 63 inches
• sugar bowl: 62 inches

An avalanche hit an apartment building in the Lake Tahoe area Tuesday night, forcing residents to evacuate, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. No injuries were reported.

Yosemite National Park, closed since Saturday due to heavy blinding snow, has postponed its scheduled reopening on Thursday indefinitely.

The heavy snowfall is expected to end on Wednesday afternoon after another 1-2 feet of rain fall across the region, according to the weather service.

The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory near Donner Pass reported almost 41.7 feet of rainfall since October, more than any snowy year since 1970 and second only to a record of 66.7 feet in 1952.

Mammoth Lakes, traditionally one of the snowiest places in California, has received almost 4 feet of snow in the past three days. Snow drifts were higher than the houses, and crews worked around the clock to clear roads and sidewalks.

Sierra’s snowpack provides about a third of the state’s water supply, and snowpack water content on Tuesday – in a state battling multi-year drought – was 186% normal to date, according to online data from the State Department of Water Resources.