2025-26 is Incomplete at this official gauge (10 missing days). Observed snowfall is 25.7 in, counting gaps as zero — a lower bound, not a confirmed quiet year.
Official gauges only (NOAA GHCN-Daily snowfall and NRCS SNOTEL winter precipitation). Not resort marketing, not OpenSnow, not OnTheSnow. This page uses the NOAA GHCN-Daily station USC00040741.
Sierra · CA · 2025-26
Gappy seasons are excluded from the historical sample. We do not paint the zero-filled total as a poor / quiet percentile on the map.
Ghost lines are past seasons. Dashed is the median. Band is the 10th–90th percentile envelope. X-axis is day of season, not calendar year.
Sliding the date recomputes the percentile against the same calendar date in past seasons — never a full year vs a partial year.
NOAA COOP at Big Bear Lake — shared valley/lake proxy with Big Bear, ~11 km east.