AZGrizFan wrote:D1B wrote:
Hey Stinky,
Hows that Sierra snowpack holding out?

Read somewhere that the drought is gonna be a record.

The Tahoe basin's snowpack on Sunday was 39 percent of average for the date while the water content of its snowpack was just 18 percent of normal, according to the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The National Weather Service was calling for no chance of snow around Tahoe at least through Christmas Day.
The start of the season is in marked contrast to last season, when Boreal reported receiving about 66 feet of snow to break its record of 55 feet set in 1994-95. The snowpack at its peak was the fourth deepest since 1946 at the University of California, Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Laboratory near Donner Summit, and well above normal across the Sierra.
That's pretty bad. Better keep your fingers crossed it gets back to normal.
RENO, Nev. -- The forecast around here doesn't call for snow any time soon.
By Tim Dunn, Reno Gazette-Journal (USA Today)
"...And if that happens, it will be the first time in 128 years -- since 1883 -- that no precipitation will have fallen in December here, according to the National Weather Service and Desert Research Institute.
"It's probably going to be dry until New Year's and possibly dry into the first week of January, too," said Jim Wallmann of the National Weather Service.
The situation couldn't be more different from this time last year, when the Lake Tahoe Basin's snowpack was at more than twice the normal levels.
On Tuesday, Tahoe's snowpack was 10 percent of average.
The situation not only affects the ski slopes but also the water supply. Dry western states' primary source of water all year is snow melt.
"I don't see very much on the horizon except a continuation of what you're seeing right now," said Kelly Redmond of the Desert Research Institute's Western Regional Climate Center. A stubborn ridge of high pressure is stationary in the Pacific, shouldering off storm systems to the north."
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AZGrizfan - Summer 2008