Posted on 02/17/2019 5:34:47 PM PST by Hojczyk
Ski and snowboard fans may have to make plans to stay inside over the Presidents Day three-day weekend instead of taking to the slopes as state officials warn there is too much snow to be cleared making mountain roads dangerous.
Mammoth Mountain, a popular ski resort, is just 5 inches short of 30-year snowfall record for February.
The Daily Mail reported:
The storm was expected to dump between 3 and 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) of fresh snow in a region where some ski resorts reported getting 3 feet (1 meter) since Thursday. Officials warned of avalanches in the greater Lake Tahoe Area, where heavy snow and high winds were expected through Sunday.
Chains were required for travel in many other parts of the towering Sierra Nevada.
“All avid skiers are itching to get out on the mountain, but the roads are pretty treacherous right now,” Kevin Cooper, marketing director for Lake Tahoe TV, said in the Mail report.
“State Route 267 is so deep that plows can no longer plow. They have ordered up a large blower to try and clear the pass,” Placer County sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Scott said in a tweet with a video.
Weather forecasters are predicting snow storms in northern Arizona this weekend. And in some parts of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, road crews are clearing avalanches that closed highways and doing operations to prevent more slides.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a white paper on its website that warns the western United States will suffer drought and reduced snowpack, even as strong snowstorms hit in the northwest U.S. and above-normal rainfall measurements in southern California have been recorded so far this year.
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They try not to address that. It gives them less power to hang over the head of California citizens.
We’ve gotten a lot of rain over the last two months, down here in Southern California, which generally means they got a whole bunch of snow up North.
I’ll give you some figures from Mammoth Mountain.
Season total of snow: 359” at the lodge, 543” at the summet
This storm: 57-97”
72 hour snowfall: 24 hours 6”, 48 hours 22”, 72 hours 45”
That’s a whole lot of water.
The drought is over.
They said it tastes like chicken!
Yes, I know the 3 to 6 feet figure gives the impression that that is all that fell. I was just pointing out that Mammoth, nearby me, has had over 25 feet of new snow since Feb. 1st, and the latest storm the last three days dropped 8 new feet of snow on top of that.
Amidst Global Warming Hysteria, NASA Expects Global Cooling
The new NASA findings are in line with studies released by UC-San Diego and Northumbria University in Great Britain last year, both of which predict a Grand Solar Minimum in coming decades due to low sunspot activity. Both studies predicted sun activity similar to the Maunder Minimum of the mid-17th to early 18th centuries, which coincided to a time known as the Little Ice Age, during which temperatures were much lower than those of today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/valentinazharkova/index?tab=articles)
If we can stall or thwart the global warming hysteria for a few years, there should be enough cold to convince skeptics that it's all a hoax and global cooling through at least mid-century is what we have to worry about. And of course, solar power isn't generated when the panels are covered with snow and wind turbines are frozen.
RRIIGHT!
The drought is definitely over. It’s going to be a beautiful spring.
So sorry! Nothing worse than wet snow.
Nah. When it melts it’ll be dumped into the pacific. Our side, awesome as it will top off Lake Tahoe very nicely.
“Cali has nothing on us and neither do the sierras.”
1. You never, ever get 20ft of snow. Sierras got that in 2 weeks.
2. The Sierras are actual mountains. You have hills, like San Francisco, only not as high.
That’s two right there.
There is no excuse for California to not be prepared for an extreme snow. The Sierra Nevada range is the first tall mountain range that humid air from the Pacific Ocean will go over, and consequently the water will precipitate out over the mountains. Extreme snow amounts happen all the time.
We’re never in a drought we have a water storage issue
I took some pictures of the wilderness off the property here, and it really is amazingly green already.
Give it five months and they’ll be belching about what a terrible fire season it will be because of all the growth.
You can never win on that front. No rain, it’a terrible season. You get rain and it’s a terrible season.
Back in 1990 when i lived in South Lake Tahoe we used to get snow every month of the year and i have seen over 5 feet fall in 24 hours but Caltrans definitely had the equipment to clear hiway 50, had to for the casino tourists and the skiers.
If you like mountains and that much snow in a communist state, then true.
There seem to be two reasons for the ‘tight controls—’maintaining fascist, delusional control via the climate change hysteria narrative as well as to maintain the high water rates blown up during the drought and never reduced (to my knowledge anywhere in the state.)
Oh wait. I meant to say wet crappy worthless snow.
Hell yes to the water storage issue. They will never invest in new and fully updated infrastructure here in Cali as it takes that money away lining and bulging in their pockets (and all their friends.) I think it’s time in California for an early American style revolution—contemporary style AR 2. ;D Time to throw the new tea in the water.
All this snow is a figment of fevered imaginations and nothing but repressed memories. There really is no snow. The last snow fell in January 2010 and that was only a small dusting at Donner Pass. That was well documented. It’s really 88 degrees today at Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe and going up to 138 F by April 1.
Do NOT believe what you read.
Every time we have a heavy rain year, the teeth start gnashing about the huge “fuel load” that will be starting to grow soon and a huge new fire season starting up.
Count on it.
Quite true. I recommend the site Open Snow. Of 14 resorts in the northern and central Sierra, 7 are reporting in excess of 400 inches so far this season plus with today’s light snow, Squaw Valley should have crossed 500 inches
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