South America’s Andes Mountains have been having a historic start to the 2024 winter season. Now, after copious snow has already led to early openings throughout the area, another whopper storm delivered. Valle Nevado, Chile, received several feet of snow. According to Open Snow, their storm total from last part of June was 69 inches, making their track record stand at six feet in seven days.
Snow-Forecast.com also reports on the new record in the making:
As snow continues to dump on ski slopes in Argentina and Chile, the snow totals are now leading to claims that this is the snowiest start of a ski season there since the 1990s.
Those with long experience of snowfall in the region have so far said the pre-season-start snow totals are the most in 25 or even 30 years in some cases.
The majority of ski areas in Chile and several in Argentina had already opened early for their 2024 seasons, which for most had been expected to launch this weekend, before the snow started falling six weeks ago.
Valle Nevado passed 5 metres for its snowfall to date stat on Saturday, the day it would have opened for the season had it not already opened weeks early. It has reached 509cm (17 feet), reporting 106cm (43”) in the past 48 hours.
As reported yesterday in Cold Weather Report, many ski resorts are opening with massive amounts of snow.