Well, the first real snow is here.

It is? It's sunny outside.
What are you getting in the LA Mountains?

as of 6pm on 11/28, June Lake had two feet of new smow on the ground

After something like 160 days, San Diego received some measurable precipitation! It was not much, but hopefully El Niño will not overlook this thirsty end of the state.

It's coming Big Time!

I say starting this upcoming Sunday and it will last for upwards of 10 days or so with a serious of several very wet and strong storms.

Be careful for what ya'll ask for.....

We hope so. What do you see in the forecasts?

A very good resource for determining Eastern Sierra (especially Mammoth Pass) weather is the discussion out of the NWS office in Monterey:

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecasts/displ ... tr&pil=afd

and the Dweebs:

http://izotz.com/dweebreport/

I've lived in Mammoth Lakes and Mill Valley for many years and there is almost an exact correlation to rainfall on the NE side of Mt. Tam and storms that pass through (and get hung-up) in Mammoth Pass (i.e. 1" rain in Mill Valley = 12" of Sierra Cement).

jhodlof wrote:It is? It's sunny outside.
What are you getting in the LA Mountains?

JUST KIDDING

Nah, it's mostly gone now from the south slopes. Wind and less-than-totally-awesome (read: cold) weather.

To California folks longing for rain and gloomy weather --> You're welcome.

I have a planned trip from my home in New England to southern California to run the SB marathon on 12/6 and stick around the following week to hike and explore the area and enjoy that famous California sunshine. My planned trip is to be there from 12/5 through 12/11. Hence the crappy weather next week. The forecast I see is for rain everyday starting Sunday, lasting at least until when I leave Friday. How accurate are these forecasts ? I am considering eating my airline ticket and registration fee and getting some work done around home, I assume the inside of a cloud looks the same from the top of Baldy or Gaviota peak as it does from Camel's Hump in Vt, an hour drive from my house. Not really a question here, just a general self pity post .

Our local meteorologist discussed the next couple of weeks last night. Apparently, there is a high pressure system that is going to park itself over Alaska for the next couple of weeks and form an "Omega" shaped block, and shove the jet stream over SoCal. This will, according to him, create just what Chief said; a series of storms, one after another; a sort of Pineapple Express, bringing rainy weather to us rain-starved Southern Californians (with rather low snow levels) for the next couple of weeks. It will, according to him, soak all of the Southwest, especially southern CA, AZ, NM, and of course, the general Houston area, so MikeTx will be underwater (again)

Sorry to ruin your trip.

But for us? WooHoo!

It is going to dump white shit outta the sky for well over a week.

14-19" QPF equates to 14 to 19 FEET OF WHITE CONCRETE!

Holy Shit, here I go again....

http://westernfarmpress.com/news/snow-survey-0104/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WesternFarmPress+%28Western+Farm+Press%29

A bit better than last year so far, but not so great. Time will tell.

NWS long range is finally about to raise the El Nino jetstream flag for the first time this season starting as the Martin Luther King weekend wanes. If that comes to pass, this following week could finally bring in some big weather. So far this year outside the one big mid October storm, this winter has been rather droughty. Lots of small storms piddling on the north part of the state making surface mud. This winter has reminded me of a few of our drier years like those in the late 80s. Some winters the jetstream will move south into California only once or twice during January/February period. We'll get a series of big storms that drops most of the winter's precip before the jetstream moves back north and then rest of the winter goes back to dry. However we've also had a few winters where the first half was dry and then flip flopped into a long wet pattern.

David Senesac
http://www.davidsenesac.com