A big snowstorm that is set to bring up to 90cm (three feet) of snow to much of Western North America has hit California as Thanksgiving Day holiday gets underway in the USA.
Although it is still only 7am on the US West Coast the first pictures are starting to appear on social media and the first 24 snowfall measurement stats have been published, with Kirkwood reporting the most so far - 28cm of snow in the past 24 hours.
Mammoth published the image top at 6.30am California time this morning.
Although most parts of North America have had a cold and snowy November, the West Coast has been an exception, until now, with warm temperatures and little natural snowfall, although most resorts had opened, it was with 100% machine made snow piled up on green hillsides.
The snowfall is expected to be heavy right up to southern BC over the Canadian border with resorts around Vancouver also seeing big falls, but perhaps not so much further north at Whistler, which is set to open next week but has only had 30cm of snowfall so far this autumn.
The snow will also continue to move East bringing perhaps 20-40cm of snow to Colorado and Utah later this week, although many resorts here are already in great shape for this early in the season with more than a metre of snowfall over the past few months.