Snow depth maps show Pacific Northwest has become the powder capital of the USA

Snow depth map
National snow depth map for the United States (and lower Canada), generated by NOAA’s National Weather Service on December 26th, 2015.
Northwest mountains snow depth map
A closeup snow depth map from NOAA’s NWS for the Cascade, Olympic, and Coast Ranges in Washington and Oregon.

Pacific Northwest
Automated Model Discussion
December 26, 2015

  Area Covered By Snow: 68.5%
  Area Covered Last Month: 53.8%
Snow Depth
  Average: 25.4 in
  Minimum: 0.0 in
  Maximum: 1671.2 in
  Std. Dev.: 32.5 in
Snow Water Equivalent
  Average: 5.9 in
  Minimum: 0.0 in
  Maximum: 859.0 in
  Std. Dev.: 9.0 in
National
Automated Model Discussion
December 26, 2015

  Area Covered By Snow: 39.4%
  Area Covered Last Month: 22.4%
Snow Depth
  Average: 4.3 in
  Minimum: 0.0 in
  Maximum: 1671.2 in
  Std. Dev.: 10.4 in
Snow Water Equivalent
  Average: 0.8 in
  Minimum: 0.0 in
  Maximum: 859.0 in
  Std. Dev.: 2.3 in

The numbers aid in telling the story… quite a comparison!