‘Mindboggling’: Will Monday’s big snow tally break a 1952 record in the Sierra Nevada?

A skier rides down the slopes from the KT-22 summit during the grand opening of Palisades Tahoe gondola line in Olympic Valley, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2022. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

California water officials were set to trek up to Echo Summit south of Lake Tahoe on Monday for a highly anticipated annual snowpack measurement — and this year, it could be like a scene out of the 1975 movie “Jaws.”

They’ll — probably — need a bigger ruler.

The results could topple a record set more than half century ago.

A colossal pounding of snowfall this winter in the Sierra

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