Winter Weather 2014-2015

Don't really have much, just felt like starting this thread on the first day of winter.

Does look like cold air will eventually return.



Heard some rumors about the possibility of snow around New Years but can't find much on the topic.

Can only get better right.

I saw a snowflake.

There is some chatter about a storm next weekend, as well as an arctic blast to follow.  We will see.....

For the first night in a long time I have icicles instead of a steady drip. I can hear snow guns. We'll be OK.

Radar looks nice, 1" at the house at 6:45. I would guess 2" in town, steady light snow falling

This image just got a lot less brown.

The cold looks to be entrenched for a least a while, we just had a major coastal that didn't exactly deliver but also didn't do any damage, we got a clipper on tap and something else after that.

It's good right.

Good? Hell yeah..

Lake Tahoe received around 5" of snow for the entire month of January, a record!!

Well I was speaking relatively, and for the east.  Monday's thing seems to have disappeared or maybe shifted south?

Tahoe is toast. How can those resorts survive after (how many?) crappy years in a row? I guess some do have a solid summer business.

Harvey wrote

Well I was speaking relatively, and for the east.  Monday's thing seems to have disappeared or maybe shifted south?

Tahoe is toast. How can those resorts survive after (how many?) crappy years in a row? I guess some do have a solid summer business.

Can the whole population base and our agriculture business survive after low snow pack for years on end. I was at Hoover Dam this summer, the reservoir is unbelievably low.

That's a different, and much bigger issue. The western US (and yea the whole world) is unsustainable.  I'll never forget seeing crops grown in the desert out west with huge irrigation projects.  Until we pay the true cost of everything we are doomed.

Better?

I’v been to tahoe twice, the 2nd  time they were having a  mediocre winter. Just before I arrived they received a huge snowfall, upwards of 5 feet in a 2-3 day stretch.  Not sure I would go back

PeeTex wrote

Can the whole population base and our agriculture business survive after low snow pack for years on end. I was at Hoover Dam this summer, the reservoir is unbelievably low.

Cities are going to have to recycle both grey and brown waste water. Some already are.

If this western drought doesn't end, it's going to get drastic. Imagine tens of millions of people with insufficient water. Basic survival could be challenged.

PeeTex wrote

Harvey wrote

Well I was speaking relatively, and for the east.  Monday's thing seems to have disappeared or maybe shifted south?

Tahoe is toast. How can those resorts survive after (how many?) crappy years in a row? I guess some do have a solid summer business.

Can the whole population base and our agriculture business survive after low snow pack for years on end. I was at Hoover Dam this summer, the reservoir is unbelievably low.

It's interesting because my perception was identical.  We have a huge agricultural economy out here (the area where I live is called the "Apple Capital of the World" though our mainstay is actually cherries), and we rely heavily on snowpack sourced irrigation.  The predominant perception is that our snowpack has been declining.

This guy seems to prove this assumption wrong, based on pure data analysis for the NW and NoCal:

Northwest Snowpack Analysis on TAY

I'm not sure what to think.... many of the critical upstream water sources are reporting numbers that look disastrous for the coming dry season, but based on the data, this is just appears to be a bad year in the grand scheme of things

It almost seems it's snowing now because the temp is dropping so fast.

Looks like it's going to snow again.

Yep - things have changed and it's staying dry too.