Weatherwatch: November 2021.

At Denali National Park Headquarters, the total rain of 8.65 inches is more than twice the previous highest December rain and is the second highest for any month on record, and the total snowfall of 78.0 inches of snow was also the second-highest monthly total. Rain and freezing rain were widespread, and in the Interior the rain was preceded by significant snowfall. In Donner Pass, California, the Central Sierra Snow Lab - with continuous snow depth records dating to 1879, little more than three decades after 39 of 87 pioneers in the snow-bound Donner Party succumbed during the winter of 1846-1847 - reported a December snowfall record, with approximately 214 inches of snow (previously, 179 inches in 1970). While rainfall was well below normal across the Panhandle, snowfall was near to above normal because most of the precipitation that did occur fell as snow. [Extracted from the article]