I’m not understanding the report. This might be a nice late season snowfall but definitely not the largest single-day for the entire season. There were some days with 6-10 feet forecast in some areas.
True - Blizzard warning, avalanche watch as storm packing up to 10 feet of snow moves into Sierra Nevada... February 29, 2024..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4221011/posts
Not this year... you might be thinking about last year’s single day record snowfall, or a snowfall total for a storm over several days this year, but 26” is what the record keepers are calling for the single greatest amount of snowfall in one day.