Record-breaking snowfall on Mount Washington
Posted December 25, 2010 5:16 pm.
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MOUNT WASHINGTON (NEWS1130) – While the usual warm, rainy weather has coated much of Canada’s West Coast this Christmas, one Vancouver Island ski resort is practically snowed-in.
Mount Washington has been pummeled with three metres of fresh snow in the past three days, burying lodges, cars and even ski lifts.
A spokesman for Mount Washington Alpine is boasting a mid-mountain snow base of more than five metres, currently the deepest among ski resorts worldwide. Brent Curtain says in the past month and a half the resort has already gone halfway toward breaking its all-time record of 18.5 metres of snow, which took five months to build up in the winter of 1998-1999.
He says staff members are working hard to dig out lifts and get all trails open for skiers and snowboarders.
La Nina is considered a factor in massive snowfall.
