El Niño winters bring Bogus Basin about 9% less snow than a typical winter.
Based on 14 El Niño winters since 1986: 6 of them beat Bogus Basin's median snowfall. That's a fairly consistent pattern. Ranks #113 of 152 Western resorts for El Niño snowfall.
Checked against a real snow station: at the Bogus Basin SNOTEL station, measured precipitation in El Niño winters ran −3% vs. its average (27 winters of measurements).
Snowfall each winter compared with Bogus Basin's 40-winter average, colored by what the Pacific was doing.
El Niño La Niña Neutral
Mid-mountain, November–April. Any single winter can buck the pattern; that's why we look at averages.
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