Headed our way

[Dave]

The weather guessers are saying we get snow the next couple days. So I looked at the weather radar to see what is coming. I don't know how much moisture it is packing but it covers a big area. It stretches from central Oregon down to south of LA. The leading edge is just out my back door. It looks like northern CA and all of northern Nevada is getting snow already. Hopefully the majority of this storm slides passed to the south of us. I guess it is still winter. Someone should have shot that dang groundhog.

 

[Silver]

Never turn down a shot of moisture.

 

[Travlr]

There's a lot of the west that is hoping for some moisture. It's been a dry winter for a lot of people.

 

[Silver]

There's a lot of the west that is hoping for some moisture. It's been a dry winter for a lot of people.

We finally have a snow pack after two dry winters. Looking forward to seeing dugouts fill and water running this spring.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

My only complaint about the deep snowpack (currently 48-60" on the ground) is I wish it would warm up and settle the snow a bit then freeze it up. Then a guy wouldn't get stuck so easily, and it would quit blowing around creating new 3' drifts every night.

 

[CowboyRam]

Send it our way. New Orleans got more snow in one snow storm than what we got all winter here in Riverton. The snow pack in the mountains is looking good, but lower down we could use some more moisture. The snow we did get last month is all gone.

 

[Dave]

We have had over our annual average since November 1. So we are not short on moisture. Snowtel has the average snow pack at 114% on the 20 sites they test. The sites they check have names which mean nothing to me. But 15 are over 100%. One site at 143%. The others are mostly in the 90% range. So there is plenty of snow pack to provide irrigation this summer.

As I said I have no idea how much moisture this one has but it is sure covering a wide area.

 

[Nesikep]

mountains around here definitely need more snow, it's been dry and until the last too weeks it was very warm

 

[Dave]

The weather radar says it is snowing here now. Looking outside my eyes say it is cloudy but not snowing. The traffic cameras on the freeway aren't showing any snow either. Maybe the weather radar is in with the weather guessers trying to tell us things which aren't happening.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Opposite here radar hasn't showed any snow here in 3 days. But the 8-12" of fresh fluffy stuff says otherwise.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Current radar and current out the window.

 

[Dave]

It started spitting some snow. But pretty light small flakes. Isn't going to amount to any thing. The big band is almost half past us. It looked a lot worse on radar than it is turning out to be. Another wet one coming ashore in California now. It will be here tomorrow.

 

[farmerjan]

We got a 10 inch snow on Tuesday... high end of what they were predicting.. some areas got 12-15 which was 6+ inches above their predicted amounts. Then some got a 1/4 to 1/2 inch coating of ice... mostly those south and east as the "transition band" stayed south of us, and rain just south of there. Little bit of rainy mist all day yesterday and it was melting.

Trees and power lines down... lots of areas south and east without power. Now, the temps have warmed up, the sun is out, and it is in the low 50's...The snow is melting faster than you can imagine. Tonight due to go down in the 20's... hoping for some freezing over hard enough to get around tomorrow morning early. Then a serious rain coming Sat and Sun of up to 4 inches... WHAT A MESS..... We had been in drought conditions last several years, some rain in spots but overall it was pretty dry for us... Wish we could capture and hold back some of this to save it for the summer...
Oh well, at least we can't control Mother Nature ...yet... seems they are developing ways to control most everything else.

 

[Dave]

Well it came and went. I don't know that it ended up giving us an inch. Not a lot of moisture in it. The next one coming on shore stretches from Oregon clear down to Mexico. It will be here tomorrow.
This morning I watched the local TV which comes out of Portland which is over 300 miles away. It was 32 and had snowed an inch or two. Listening to the reporters you would have thought the world was coming to an end. Everyone was about to freeze to death. I was good for a laugh or two on my part listening to them.

 

[Stonewall Joe]

The weather guessers are saying we get snow the next couple days. So I looked at the weather radar to see what is coming. I don't know how much moisture it is packing but it covers a big area. It stretches from central Oregon down to south of LA. The leading edge is just out my back door. It looks like northern CA and all of northern Nevada is getting snow already. Hopefully the majority of this storm slides passed to the south of us. I guess it is still winter. Someone should have shot that dang groundhog.

Calling for some pretty cold weather (at least for us) down here. I never look forward to that

 

[Dave]

Calling for some pretty cold weather (at least for us) down here. I never look forward to that

We had our cold weather this last week. Now we seem to be trending to our normal winter weather with highs around 40 and lows in the upper 20's. Probably get some snow but not the long lasting variety.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

-14 again this morning. 10 day forecast looks like more similar weather ahead.

 

[farmerjan]

Went from warm 56 yesterday and half the snow melting, down to 17 last night... everything froze hard. Getting around to do feeding now. It will warm up in awhile and get muddy.

Now calling for freezing rain tomorrow... upwards of 1/4 inch ice... then just cold rain later in day.

 

[GoWyo]

We get to be near 50* today then <20* overnight and progressively colder over the weekend to single digit highs Monday-Wednesday. The arctic air boundary moves back and forth over us from day to day so we bounce around between real cold and warm every few days with some wind in between.