Climate and Weather

Ricky Fandango said:
Late snow is the best snow for snow pack and water into the spring and early summer.
Sierras gonna get another blast.
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Snow is snow. The formal water-planning snow pack water-equivalent measurements occur on April 1. Snowfall later than that is a treasure for skiers, but doesn't add much to the water supply - unless it is at the end of a dry winter. This year is unusual because while there has not been much snow, there has been a lot of rainfall in conditions too warm to come down as snow. All the water project reservoirs are near or above historic averages for this date (except Oroville, which has been kept low while repairs to the spillway are completed).

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
 
espola said:
Snow is snow. The formal water-planning snow pack water-equivalent measurements occur on April 1. Snowfall later than that is a treasure for skiers, but doesn't add much to the water supply - unless it is at the end of a dry winter. This year is unusual because while there has not been much snow, there has been a lot of rainfall in conditions too warm to come down as snow. All the water project reservoirs are near or above historic averages for this date (except Oroville, which has been kept low while repairs to the spillway are completed).

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
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Late snow is best.
 
espola said:
Snow is snow. The formal water-planning snow pack water-equivalent measurements occur on April 1. Snowfall later than that is a treasure for skiers, but doesn't add much to the water supply - unless it is at the end of a dry winter. This year is unusual because while there has not been much snow, there has been a lot of rainfall in conditions too warm to come down as snow. All the water project reservoirs are near or above historic averages for this date (except Oroville, which has been kept low while repairs to the spillway are completed).

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
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So is the snow falling now considered late?
 
espola said:
The locations where the snow pack is measured are all in the higher elevations.

Some remedial education for you --

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/SnowSurveyProcedureManualv20141027.pdf
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Huck don't want no learning no more . . .

"Pap harasses Huck for wearing good clothes and going to school. He then accuses Huck of putting on airs and acting better than his own father. Pap remarks that no one in his family could ever read, and that he certainly does not want his son to be smarter than he is. He demands that Huck read him something, and soon becomes quite furious when he realizes that Huck is in fact able to read. Pap threatens to beat Huck if he ever catches him near the school again."
 
Lion Eyes said:
I'm waiting for some moron to claim he can't remember it ever snowing this much in March.....:cool:
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No waiting for some moron to twist, spin and mischaracterize then run with that interpretation in here, cuz that's what nutters do . . . that and cling to long ago debunked BS (you may just be the king of that . . . cue the crying baby).
 
Multi Sport said:
What do you consider higher elevations since ALL of the measurements are taken there?

And you never answered my question. Is the snowfall we are getting considered a late snowfall?
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No. March is still within the "snow year", since it is before the annual water-planning date of April 1. I have a feeling I said that already.

In the maximum year (82-83) shown in these graphs

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/PLOT_SWC.pdf

there were obvious significant snowfalls will into May, and last year, which was a "good" year but not unusual, snowfalls can be seen well into April.
 
espola said:
No. March is still within the "snow year", since it is before the annual water-planning date of April 1. I have a feeling I said that already.

In the maximum year (82-83) shown in these graphs

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/PLOT_SWC.pdf

there were obvious significant snowfalls will into May, and last year, which was a "good" year but not unusual, snowfalls can be seen well into April.
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See how easy that was?

Now.. what is considered high elevation since all measurements are taken there?
 
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