Snow will come to California’s Sierra Nevada a bit earlier than usual.
Ryan Maue adds: “as this storm pulls eastward, it will “bomb” out or explosively deepen over the Great Plains and move into the upper-Midwest. The barometric pressure will fall to 962 mb 955 mb according to the most recent GFS forecast, making it one of the deepest northern United States continental extratropical cyclones since 1979 for the 30-day period between October 15 and November 14. This will clearly be a historical storm and an extreme event: evidence of global warming La Nina.”
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
407 PM PDT SAT OCT 23 2010
…POWERFUL PACIFIC STORM TO BRING HEAVY SNOW TO THE HIGHER
ELEVATIONS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA AND LASSEN PARK…
.A POWERFUL PACIFIC STORM WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN…SNOW AND STRONG
WINDS TO THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND LASSEN PARK AREAS TONIGHT
AND SUNDAY. THE HEAVIEST SNOW AND STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO
IMPACT THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON SUNDAY…TAPERING OFF LATER
SUNDAY NIGHT.
CAZ068-241245-
/O.NEW.KSTO.WS.W.0014.101023T2307Z-101025T0600Z/
WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK-
407 PM PDT SAT OCT 23 2010
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT SUNDAY ABOVE
7500 FEET…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING ABOVE 7500 FEET FOR HEAVY SNOW…AND BLOWING SNOW
WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT SUNDAY FOR WESTERN PLUMAS
COUNTY.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: 6 INCHES TO A FOOT ARE POSSIBLE ABOVE 7500
FEET IN WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY…WITH SEVERAL FEET OF SNOW
OCCURRING ON TOP OF MOUNT LASSEN.
* ELEVATION: ABOVE 7500 FEET.
* TIMING: SNOW WILL OCCUR OVERNIGHT AND SUNDAY AND WILL BE HEAVY
AT TIMES.
* LOCATIONS INCLUDE: LASSEN NATIONAL PARK.
* WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 70 MPH.
* IMPACTS: PERIODS OF SNOW AND STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS CAUSING
BLOWING SNOW WILL RESULT IN POOR VISIBILITIES ABOVE 7500 FEET.
ALTHOUGH THE WINTER CAMPGROUND MAY EXPERIENCE RAIN…SNOW WILL
OCCUR ON THE ROAD TO MOUNT LASSEN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING.
&&
$$
CAZ069-241245-
/O.NEW.KSTO.WS.W.0014.101024T0600Z-101025T0600Z/
WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA-
407 PM PDT SAT OCT 23 2010
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
11 PM PDT SUNDAY ABOVE 7500 FEET FOR THE WEST SLOPE NORTHERN
SIERRA NEVADA…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING ABOVE 7500 FEET FOR HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW
…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 PM PDT SUNDAY
FOR THE WEST SLOPE OF THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: 1 TO 2 FEET OF SNOW ABOVE 7500 FEET.
* ELEVATION: ABOVE 7500 FEET.
* TIMING: RAIN AND SNOW OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA WILL CONTINUE
OVERNIGHT AND BE HEAVY AT TIMES DURING THE DAY ON SUNDAY.
* LOCATIONS INCLUDE: THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA
INCLUDING SONORA PASS ON HIGHWAY 108…EBBETS PASS ON HIGHWAY
4…CARSON PASS ON HIGHWAY 88…AND ECHO SUMMIT ON HIGHWAY 50.
* WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 70 MPH.
* IMPACTS: HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL RESULT IN
POOR VISIBILITY…AND POSSIBLE ROAD CLOSURES OR DANGEROUS
TRAVELING CONDITIONS OVER THE HIGHER MOUNTAIN PASSES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS
ACTIONS…
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW
ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN
EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL…KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT…
FOOD…AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
&&
R. Gates says October 25, 2010 at 8:06 am
More hand waving from the great brown noser!
What is the “velocity” of the hydrological cycle?
Richard Sharpe said:
“More hand waving from the great brown noser!”
____
I can only assume then that Anthony now approves of ad hominem attacks here on WUWT. But to use the definition of the term as I understand it, I would ask: who would it be that I would be “brown nosing”?
______
What is the “velocity” of the hydrological cycle?
Of course, I know you are having your fun, but in fact there are in fact several ways to measure the “velocity” of the hydrological cycle:
1) Ocean salinity
2) Stream flows
3) Precipitation events
4) Evaporation
Then of course, “accleration” would be a measure of the changes in these on a global basis. Here’s a nice little fairly recent study on one aspect related to measurement of the acceleration in the hydrological cycle:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100416094050.htm
Interesting study recently completed relating to the topic of storms and extra-energy available and hemispheric differences:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-planet-affect-storms-differently-northern.html
R Gates, you need, you really need, to live next to the Pacific Ocean along the Washington, Oregon, or California coastline. If you do, you need to get out more.
Your climate change culprit is the ocean. We are under La Nina conditions. I should know. I drove through La Nina’s cold tears this morning. And me without snow tires. Why? Can’t put my snow tires on just yet. Why? It ain’t November yet (stupid ass rule that has nothing to do with conditions on the ground).
But don’t get your knickers in a bunch. Don’t wax “climate warming”, “climate change”, “catastrophic climate change”, or “climate disruption” poetic on me. It has nothing to do with CO2. It has everything to do with La Nina. Cold La Nina inspired air mixing with left over El Nino oceanic moisture translates into cold, wintry, snowy conditions (file that under “duh”).
I have to ask, do you have living grandparents? You act as if you haven’t heard the weather stories from past generations.
He won’t listen to your logic and reason, Pamela, because he is unable to do so.
Figured that one out a while back.
He is the reason NASA and the UKMet is in such a fix.
Even though he is definitely not a scientist, it is scientists of his ideological ilk that are running things in the science community, so same difference.
Its like they themselves are caught in their own runaway greenhouse effect, of sorts, where, so to speak, positive feedback is rampant, due to the human tendency toward cognitive dissonance….combined with the distasteful narcissistic homo sapiens trait of talking out of the rear.
One day open-mindedness and reason will return.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
From R Gates Science Daily link on the acceleration of the hydro cycle:
“These broad-scale patterns of change are qualitatively consistent with simulations reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”
=============================
Oh…OK….consistent with the IPCC.
Wow. I am exactly anti-concerned, then.
Nothing more to be said.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA