Season Intelligence Report

Northstar California

CA · 8,610 ft summit · RNO

Grade Pending

NWS Bias

2025–26 Season Snapshot

Storms This Season

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storms tracked

Season Snowfall

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season total

Best Storm

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no storms yet

Current Snowpack

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SNOTEL ground truth

NWS Forecast Accuracy

Pending

Accuracy grade pending, and it stays that way on purpose. We show the raw NWS forecast for Northstar California and do not grade or correct it. Six winters of NWS-against-SNOTEL checking found forecast accuracy here turns on an unresolved snow-measurement question (settled snow depth vs. fresh snowfall), not a fixed per-mountain bias anyone can honestly correct. So we show the number NWS publishes and tell you that is what it is.

SNOTEL ground truth (809:CA:SNTL)

Storm History — 2025–26 Season

No storms recorded this season yet.

Local Knowledge

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Road & Access

I-80 Donner Pass

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