Northstar snow report today
No snow on the ground at the Truckee #2 gauge (6,500 ft) at 1 AM PDT. No change in 24 hours; no change in 48 hours; no change in 7 days. Gauge read .
Snow depth from the USDA Truckee #2 SNOTEL gauge, 3.8 miles north-west of Northstar at 6,500 ft, read every hour.
| On the ground | none |
|---|---|
| Change in 24 hours | no change |
| Change in 48 hours | no change |
| Change in 7 days | no change |
| Water in the snow | 0.4 in |
| Air temperature | 31°F |
Opening-day alerts
A notification on this device on opening day, early in the morning, with a link to the resort’s own report. Pick your resorts:
For Mt. Rose, Sugar Bowl and Diamond Peak it comes the morning their lift page first shows a lift running; for the others, the morning of the opening day they announced, whether or not it holds. It is a heads-up, not the resort’s report: check the resort’s own site for hours and terrain before you go. One alert per resort; no account, no email, and you can turn them off here any time (what we keep).
Northstar’s own snow report
Northstar’s terms of use do not allow its site to be read by a program, so this page does not copy its report. Its base depth, new snow, lifts and trails open, grooming and surface conditions are on northstarcalifornia.com, posted by the resort each morning in season. What is here is measured independently, by the federal gauge on or near the mountain.
Northstar opening day: Target Nov 20.Northstar's opening day is Friday, November 20, as posted on northstarcalifornia.com.
Chains on the way to Northstar now
Truckee now
No chain controls at Truckee (Caltrans). Checked .
Brockway Summit now
No chain controls at Brockway Summit (Caltrans). Checked .
Donner Pass now
No chain controls at Donner Pass (Caltrans). Checked .
Truckee road conditions · Truckee webcams · Brockway Summit road conditions · Brockway Summit webcam · Do I need chains on Donner Pass? · Donner Pass webcam · Do I need chains to get to Northstar from Sacramento?
Snow, next 72 hours at Northstar: none · How much snow is Northstar getting: the 72-hour forecast →
Where the snow is measured
The gauge is SNOTEL station Truckee #2 (834:CA:SNTL), run by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It stands 3.8 miles north-west of Northstar at 6,500 ft and reports every hour: snow depth from a sonic sensor over the ground, the water held in the snow from a pressure pillow, and the air temperature.
“New snow” here is how much deeper the snow is than 24 hours, 48 hours and 7 days earlier. Fresh snow settles as it lands and melts on warm afternoons, so a rise is the least that fell, and a fall can mean melt rather than wind. When a storm comes and goes inside the week, the deepest reading of the week is shown with its time. A reading older than six hours is not shown as current: the page says when the gauge last reported instead.
Webcams near Northstar
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on SR-267 at Northstar and Brockway Summit. They show the road and the snow along it; the resort’s own slope cameras are on northstarcalifornia.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
- SR-267 at Brockway Summit
- SR-267 at Truckee Bypass
- I-80 at Truckee / SR-267
- SR-89 at Truckee / West River
Northstar California, its snow gauge and the highway cameras around it.
The road to Northstar
From Reno, I-80 west to Truckee (about 32 miles), then SR-267 south toward Kings Beach for about 6 miles to Northstar Drive. SR-267 climbs on past the resort to Brockway Summit before dropping to the lake.
Road conditions, chain controls and every camera: I-80 · SR-267.
Snow reports for the other Tahoe resorts
All ten side by side: the Tahoe snow report. One page each: Heavenly · Palisades Tahoe · Mt. Rose · Kirkwood · Sugar Bowl · Boreal · Diamond Peak · Sierra-at-Tahoe · Homewood.
- When does Northstar open? Opening day and lifts
- Northstar snow forecast for the next 72 hours
- Tahoe ski resort opening dates
Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Truckee #2 (834:CA:SNTL), public domain, provisional data, read hourly. Resort report: linked, not copied. Chain control: Caltrans and NDOT, read every five minutes. Nevada Explorer is not affiliated with Northstar California.