Posted on 05/09/2011 7:21:22 PM PDT by Signalman
Just checked the aviation wx for S. Lake Tahoe Airport and right now (7:10PM PDSAT), it's snowing with visibility 2 1/2 miles, temp: 33F.
I live in SOCAL but I've been to Tahoe before this time of the year previously on a number of occasions, and I don't remember it being this cold or snowing. Is this unusual?
Well then, let me be the FIRST to wish you all a Very Merry CHRISTmas!!!
GLOBUL WARMING!!!!!
Nah. Global warming. The earth has a fever. The center of the earth is “millions of degrees”.
Heh.
Not unusual but not the norm either. I have seen it snow here in may, here being at about the 2000 foot mark in Amador county approximately 90 miles from Tahoe. It is not unheard of for snow to fall in June in Tahoe, or at various times during the summer.
HA...it snowed in South King County (SE of Seattle)....about a week ago....THAT is WEIRD. Global Warming my arse.
99 degree day in Amarillo Texas BTTT !
I recall someone saying that in Tahoe it isn’t unusual, many years record some snow fall every month of the year.
I recall someone saying that in Tahoe it isn’t unusual, many years record some snow fall every month of the year.
Actually, I remember one late April weekend when I motorcycled up to North Lake Tahoe in 80 degree weather. The very next day, I rode home in a snowstorm.
Not unusual at all, spring weather is always a crapshoot in the high Sierra.
Impossible, all the experts say there's globalwarming!/s
OK thanks. The airport elevation, according to airnav
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KTVL
is at 6269 ft, well over a mile above sea level, so I guess it would not be unusual to have snow this time of year, or even later in the year.
There’s a ski resort down in Australia I read about that said in a news story about a month ago that it started snowing two months earlier than normal.
Let me see if I can dig it up....
Yep, here it is!
http://www.iceagenow.com/Snow_hits_Australia_two_months_early.htm
Snow hits Australia two months early
Ski season still 2 months away
12 Apr 11 - With the official start to the ski season still two months away, snow continues falling across Mt Buller today after temperatures fell below zero last night, says this article in “The Age.”
About 10cm (3.9 inches) had fallen at Mt Buller by 9am.
Although snow is not unusual for April, 10 centimetres is a “significant amount for this time of year,” said Laurie Blampied, general manager of Buller Ski Lifts.
“It’s still two months until the official opening of the snow season but we love to see the temperatures dropping and snow coming to the mountain.”
Falls Creek and Mt Hotham also reported snow.
Warm globally, cool locally!
No, not that unusual. I live in the High Sierra and have been snowed on in July and August. Talked to a freind in Reno this morning, he said it was snowing there too.
I might add that that is snowing throughout the Eastern High Sierra including Mammoth Mtn and there is snow and ice on Hwy 395 between just north of Bishop to the Nevada state line right now.
Heh. That’s normal. Welcome to the West. ;-)
LOL
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