Opening of the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics

Thursday, February 18, 1960Olympic Valley, California, United States

snow 8am–5pm18°F

Snow before dawn on a hard wind that drove it flat across the valley. The air felt near 18°F and never moved far from there. It came down hardest through the middle of the day, thick enough to lose the far side of things, then eased through the afternoon without ever quite stopping. The wind fell off after dark. Late in the evening the flakes thinned to almost nothing, the cold near 16° and the quiet complete.

Snowfall
4.3"
Humidity
89%
Wind
15 mph
Daylight
10.8 hrs
High / Low
30° / 22°F
Felt like
21° / 14°F
Rain
0.00"
Pressure
29.91 inHg
Gusting to
44 mph
Wind from
southwest
Sunrise / Sunset
6:49 am / 5:40 pm
Day's character
heavy snow

Pre-satellite record — solid, not exact. Checked against the Squaw Valley station, under a mile away: it agrees.

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