RENO, Nev. (AP) - The latest storm in the Sierra set a snowfall record for the date at Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
The National Weather Service says the 1.3 inches (33 millimeters) of snow recorded Monday tripled the old record of .4 inch (10 mm) set on April 6, 1982.
The late season storm dumped more than a foot (30 centimeters) of snow around Lake Tahoe and nearly 3 feet (1 meter) in the southern Sierra at the Mammoth Mountain resort south of Yosemite National Park.
More than 2 inches (5 cm) of snow fell in northwest Reno and up to 5 inches (12 cm) in northeast Sparks.
A warming trend is forecast to push the mercury to near 70 degrees (21 C) in Reno by Friday.
The late snowfall provided a boost to an otherwise dismal snowpack in the Sierra this winter. A series of storms in late March added about a half-foot (15 cm) of precipitation to the total in the Lake Tahoe and Truckee River basins, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Those events resulted in an increase from less than 50% of normal at the beginning of March to better than 70% of normal by April 1, the Reno Gazette Journal reported last week.
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