Before-and-after photos show the insane snow dump in California's Sierra Nevada

. . Photo: Left: Tom Stienstra/SFC. Right: Jonathan Shaw Photo: Left: Tom Stienstra/SFC. Right: Jonathan Shaw Image 1 of / 43 Caption Close Before-and-after photos show the insane snow dump in California's Sierra Nevada 1 / 43 Back to Gallery

One after another, fierce storms have relentlessly hammered the Sierra Nevada, burying the mountain range straddling Nevada and California in an avalanche snow.

The seamless blanket of snow stretches from Mount Whitney to the south to Mount Lassen to the north, and its mountainous piles climbing above rooftops and forming walls of ice along roadsides are staggering, impressive, insane.

Really, there are no words to capture this season's snowfall and so we've set out to show you it by putting together the gallery of before and after images, gathered from throughout the Sierra and also in the Cascade Range.

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And if you don't believe the photographs, we've also have some official numbers.

The California Department of Water Resources reported in its monthly snow survey on Feb. 28th that the Sierra snowpack is now 153 percent of average to date.

A manual measurement at Phillips Station off U.S. 50 near Sierra-at-Tahoe found a snow depth of 113 inches (287 centimeters) and a snow water equivalent of 43.5 inches (110.5 centimeters), more than double what was recorded there in January.

Snow water equivalent is the depth of water that theoretically would result if the entire snowpack melted instantaneously, according to DWR. It's a key number used by water managers across the state to estimate anticipated spring runoff.

Phillips Station is where then-Gov. Jerry Brown attended a snowpack survey in April 2015 that found a field barren of any measurable snow. Brown later ordered Californians to use less water. Last week, the department was unable to livestream the measurement because stormy weather cut the cell connection.

"This winter's snowpack gets better each month, and it looks like California storms aren't done giving yet," Karla Nemeth, the department director, said in a statement. "This is shaping up to be an excellent water year."

Send your before-and-after snow photos to agraff@sfgate.com and we'll add them to our gallery.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.