The Central Sierra saw an astounding 17+ feet of snowfall in December 2021, breaking a record last set in 1970. The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab has been tracking snowfall in Donner Pass near Truckee, California for more than five decades. What would all those data points sound like if you turned them into music? We turned 51 years of December snowfall in Donner Pass into this sonification. 

<p>The Central Sierra saw an astounding 17+ feet of snowfall in December 2021, breaking a record last set in 1970. The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab has been tracking snowfall in Donner Pass near Truckee, California for more than five decades. What would all those data points sound like if you turned them into music? We turned 51 years of December snowfall in Donner Pass into this sonification.&nbsp;</p>

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The Musical Sounds of Snowfall...Data

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/clips/c5f96c01-64d9-482c-9bda-ae150180269d/transcript

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