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North America Weekly Snow Roundup #312
Weekly Snow News for North America, updated 30 April 2026: Palisades gains a fortnight of extra skiing after 80" (2m) of April snow, while Arapahoe Basin shocks with an unusually early closure.
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Palisades Tahoe at 1874 m altitude
Issued by Snow-Forecast.com at: 4 am (local time) / 30 Apr 2026
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Next 3 days weather summary:Light rain (total 3.0mm), mostly falling on Fri night. Very mild (max 16°C on Fri afternoon, min 5°C on Thu night). Wind will be generally light. | Days 4-6 weather summary:Heavy rain (total 36.0mm), heaviest during Sun afternoon. Very mild (max 12°C on Sun morning, min 2°C on Mon night). Wind will be generally light. | |||||||||||||||||
Thursday 30 | Friday 1 | Saturday 2 | Sunday 3 | Monday 4 | Tuesday 5 | |||||||||||||
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— | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 3 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | — | |
max °C | 13 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 |
min °C | 8 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
7 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |
34 | 34 | 49 | 30 | 56 | 72 | 52 | 69 | 74 | 63 | 87 | 95 | 84 | 87 | 100 | 98 | 89 | 88 | |
3250 | 3600 | 3400 | 3400 | 3600 | 3450 | 3300 | 3300 | 3350 | 3250 | 2900 | 2500 | 2600 | 2550 | 2500 | 2850 | 3150 | 3500 | |
 | 6:03 | — | — | 6:03 | — | — | 6:01 | — | — | 6:00 | — | — | 5:58 | — | — | 5:58 | — | — |
 | — | 7:52 | — | — | 7:52 | — | — | 7:53 | — | — | 7:54 | — | — | 7:55 | — | — | 7:57 | — |
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Palisades Tahoe Snow Conditions
| Top snow depth: | 142 cm |
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| Bottom snow depth: | — |
| Fresh snowfall depth: | — |
| Last snowfall: | 27 Apr 2026 |
| Snow Alerts | Create Alert |
Other resorts in USA - California are reporting: powder (0) / good piste (0)
Snow History
Week 4 of April has on average:
0.0 | Bluebird Powder days Fresh snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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0.3 | Powder days Fresh snow, limited sun, any wind. |
0.0 | Bluebird days Average snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
Palisades Tahoe Forecast Snowfall
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Squaw Peak by Tom
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Staying open until 7th July 2019. by Snow Forecast Admin
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The above table gives the weather forecast for Palisades Tahoe at the specific elevation of 1874 m. Our sophisticated weather models allow us to provide snow forecasts for the top, middle and bottom ski stations of Palisades Tahoe. To access the weather forecasts for the other elevations, use the tab navigation above the table. For a wider view of the weather, check out the Weather Map of United States.
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Resort name is also written as Squaw Valley.
Visitor Reviews of Palisades Tahoe
Overall 4.4 Based on 18 votes and 5 reviews
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- coldsmoker from Australia writes:
Amazing terrain at Squaw, and consistently large snow falls (save for January 2011!!). Problem is though when they do get the snow, the mountain is slow getting terrain open, or the upper mountain will be on wind hold, often leaving 30 min+ waits at the bottom of the select few lifts that do open. This leaves you stuck in line with a bunch of rude, and aggressive locals who'll ski right over your skis or board to get one precious chair ahead of you in the line. When they finally do get Granite Chief/Headwall/ KT22 or whatever open on a powder day you will get a pretty sweet run in.....before you have to spend the rest of your morning in line again. If you can be bothered lining up again, by the time you get back to the top most of the decent lines will be tracked out. Also due to the generally mild conditions the snow usually turns to crud within a day or two of a snow fall. What is not mentioned when they are broadcasting 10 feet of new snow is that several inches of rain also accompanied the storm. We had season passes this season but I wouldn't bother going back to this place. Plenty of other places with great terrain if you are prepared to hunt it out, and without the crowds, hype and aggro....and where you can actually ski powder all day. On a different note, can someone tell the 'Squaw Valley USA' marketing that no-one really cares any more that they hosted the Olympics way back when. It was over 50 years ago, get over it!
Visitor Reviews of Palisades Tahoe
coldsmoker from Australia writes:
Amazing terrain at Squaw, and consistently large snow falls (save for January 2011!!).
Problem is though when they do get the snow, the mountain is slow getting terrain open, or the upper mountain will be on wind hold, often leaving 30 min+ waits at the bottom of the select few lifts that do open. This leaves you stuck in line with a bunch of rude, and aggressive locals who'll ski right over your skis or board to get one precious chair ahead of you in the line. When they finally do get Granite Chief/Headwall/ KT22 or whatever open on a powder day you will get a pretty sweet run in.....before you have to spend the rest of your morning in line again. If you can be bothered lining up again, by the time you get back to the top most of the decent lines will be tracked out.
Also due to the generally mild conditions the snow usually turns to crud within a day or two of a snow fall. What is not mentioned when they are broadcasting 10 feet of new snow is that several inches of rain also accompanied the storm.
We had season passes this season but I wouldn't bother going back to this place. Plenty of other places with great terrain if you are prepared to hunt it out, and without the crowds, hype and aggro....and where you can actually ski powder all day.
On a different note, can someone tell the 'Squaw Valley USA' marketing that no-one really cares any more that they hosted the Olympics way back when. It was over 50 years ago, get over it!
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