Colorado snowfall so far this year

Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit County, CO?

On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 07:37:33 -0800 (PST), "
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Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit County, CO?

I know I just got done plowing 16" of global warming off my driveway.
Halfway through I had to refill the gas tank on my snowblower. I've
never used up an entire tank of gas in one day before. And I only did
half the driveway.

All seriousness aside. Try checking on www.weather.com


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On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:37:34 AM UTC-8, wrote:
Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit County, CO?

from a water/snowpack point of view -

http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

California snow is way below average, continuing the drought -

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/PLOT_SWC

The expected El Nino patter has meant a lot of storms for the 2 BCs (Baja California and British Columbia) but darned little where it counts.

On 02/02/2015 05:11 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:37:34 AM UTC-8,
wrote:
Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit
County, CO?

from a water/snowpack point of view -

http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

California snow is way below average, continuing the drought -

I don't remember it ever being "average" or "above average" here.
Granted, I was an English major, but it still seems like something is
wrong here.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/PLOT_SWC

The expected El Nino patter has meant a lot of storms for the 2 BCs
(Baja California and British Columbia) but darned little where it
counts.

Too slushy too early to spend the time/gas (even at today's prices) for
a couple of hours. I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two
miserable, one sucky and two meh.


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On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 8:34:28 PM UTC-8, The Real Bev wrote:
On 02/02/2015 05:11 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:37:34 AM UTC-8,
wrote:
Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit
County, CO?

from a water/snowpack point of view -

http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

California snow is way below average, continuing the drought -

I don't remember it ever being "average" or "above average" here.
Granted, I was an English major, but it still seems like something is
wrong here.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/PLOT_SWC

The expected El Nino patter has meant a lot of storms for the 2 BCs
(Baja California and British Columbia) but darned little where it
counts.

Too slushy too early to spend the time/gas (even at today's prices) for
a couple of hours. I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two
miserable, one sucky and two meh.


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Cheers. Bev
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It's not true that Lucas, in 1947, tried to get Parliament
to repeal Ohm's Law. They withdrew their efforts when they
met too much resistance.

A couple of years back, Mammoth had enough snow that they were open until July 4. The year after that, Big Bear had a better snow year than Mammoth.

On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one sucky
and two meh.

(That's six...)

I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural to
support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with good
coverage top to bottom and skiing is there.

It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers
anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of us
practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the dissipation of
the off-shore high.

On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:49:26 AM UTC-8, lal_truckee wrote:
On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one sucky
and two meh.

(That's six...)

I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural to
support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with good
coverage top to bottom and skiing is there.

It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers
anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of us
practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the dissipation of
the off-shore high.

I went ZERO days last season due to a coincidence of negative factors and I have had zero temptation to go so far this season. That was after a three-year stretch that was the best and busiest three years of my skiing life.

As for the off-shore high - usually this time of year the west coast gets hit by storms that originate in the Gulf of Alaska and sweep northwest to southeast. This year the G of A storms just seem to be spinning in place while the weather comes up from the southwest, heading generally northeast. What with the drought and the local watering restrictions, I am watching a good deal of my yard change over from forced tropical to its natural dry brush state.

lal_truckee wrote:
On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one
sucky and two meh.

(That's six...)

I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural
to support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with
good coverage top to bottom and skiing is there.

It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers
anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of
us practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the
dissipation of the off-shore high.

It's been a horrible season so far up here near Seattle too, but I've had 13 fun
days. When everything is frozen, I stay on the groomers and work on carving, and
when we get a little new snow, the off-piste may be a challenge, but I can have
great fun taking it on. Yesterday was a tiny bit of new at the top on heavily
rained on old snow. I had perhaps my best day yet on linking turns through that
crusty heavy surface.

I am really impressed by how well the grooming staff can keep the mountain
going. They've been doing an incredible job of keeping the rocks covered, and
the groomed runs usable. This, of course, in an area without the option of
snowmaking due to the normally warm temps.

Unfortunately, our forcasts currently show heavy rain for the next week. But
then again, we started last year pretty slow, and mid February started the best
powder spell I can remember. I'll keep hoping our temperature will drop that few
degrees we need to make the switch. And, I'll keep going up every chance I get
when it won't be actually raining for at least the morning.

On 02/02/2015 08:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
On 02/02/2015 05:11 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:37:34 AM UTC-8,
wrote:
Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit
County, CO?

from a water/snowpack point of view -

http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

California snow is way below average, continuing the drought -

I don't remember it ever being "average" or "above average" here.
Granted, I was an English major, but it still seems like something is
wrong here.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/PLOT_SWC

The expected El Nino patter has meant a lot of storms for the 2 BCs
(Baja California and British Columbia) but darned little where it
counts.

Too slushy too early to spend the time/gas (even at today's prices) for
a couple of hours. I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two
miserable, one sucky and two meh.

Proof that I was an English major. Delete one "sucky".


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On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:47:28 -0800, The Real Bev
wrote this crap:


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Jesus would have had 10 apostles."
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If Jesus was a math major he would have had 8 apostles or 16.

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