Hey Scoldilocks,
133 inches of snow before December 15th in the Sierras, fourth year in a row of record snowfall!
The drought thingy appears to be gone for some time now, can’t run that meme on us.
Too Bad! So Sad!
Evahbuddy out skiing having fun...but not you, Scoldi-Dear.
https://squawalpine.com/mountain-information/snow-weather-reports-lake-tahoe
Warmth = more ocean evaporation = more rainfall.
On a cooling trend (as we may be heading into as we enter the Solar Minimum), land will cool faster than the ocean, promoting condensation of ocean moisture, resulting in more rain/snow on land. For a while. Until the ocean cools enough that there is reduced evaporation moisture. Then we get droughts again.
Colorado Springs news item:
Per the C/S Gazette, the city exhausted this winter’s snow-clearing budget 5 days before the first day of winter.