I am sure that you all remember this article in the San Francisco Chronicle in October of 2006.
(10-27-2006) 04:00 PDT Norden, Nevada County — For the ski industry, both in California and rest of the nation, there is no greater truth than global warming, with its threat of a shrinking snowpack and the point that Yogi Berra once made so succinctly: “The future ain’t what it used to be.”
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If nothing is done to curb emissions, greenhouse gas emissions could raise Sierra temperatures another 5 or 6 degrees by the end of the 21st century, according to some projections. The snowpack could be reduced by 89 percent.
It all came rushing back to be when I read this on the Alpine Meadows web site:
Current Snow Conditions: Alpine is Closed – Too much snow to safely enjoy. (Extreme Avalanche Danger and High Winds)
Right now it looks like the Alpine Meadows could use some global warming to stay in business.
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UPDATE: It looks like the winds have subsided enough, as of 6:37AM with an update Monday morning they have removed the warning, after all, they don’t want all the heavy snow to scare customers away. Here’s the current snow depths:
And here is the current welcome message:
Source: http://www.skialpine.com/mountain/snow-report/
from: Global Warming and Alpine Closed Too Much Snow give Russ a shout out. – Anthony
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What you all are missing is that this is “Rotten” snow…
Heavy “consistent with CAGW model predictions, and so is robust, unequivocal proof of global warming” snowfall here today in western New Hampshire…
2006 was also the year, I think, that the IMAX movie about the demise of Lake Powell was filmed. Of course, it was global warming’s fault that the ongoing drought was not producing snow in the Powell watershed.
Today, the lake is some 57 feet higher, with several years of better-than-average snowfalls having occurred. And, the prospects of it being almost 100 feet higher this year are good, with all of that snow in the mountains.
Snow pack here in southwestern Alberta (at five high-elevation snow pillow sites) is ~ 50 percent above the long-term mean AND there is a heavy snowfall warning in place for the next two days with 50 cm predicted in SE Alberta. There is 13 meters of snow (~ 43 feet) at 1900 meters on Flattop Mountain in NW Montana!! Flush!
Will almost certainly be flooding again in many parts.
Last week a local eco group sponsored speakers telling us that the snow pack was down and we are in for droughts. Right.
17 March 2011
“Unseasonal Snow Gives Backpackers a Shock in Vietnam”
“…temperatures across the region plummeted to the lowest levels recorded in over a decade.”
http://www.argophilia.com/news/unseasonal-snow-in-vietnam/21723/
H/t Steven Goddard
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.
/sarc
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action
Note the California reservoir levels. Above normal all over the State. Yet the South still is engaged in rationing and the government still drones on about AGW etc. The so-called water shortage is entirely man made.
This all sucks for springtime camping. Last April we tried to camp up north, failed when nothing was opened, so we scheduled for Memorial Day just north of Bishop. Come a week before the trip they cancelled with still +6ft of snow at the camp site. We adjusted and camped in the Southern Sierra, but half the sites were still closed.
How are we supposed to enjoy Spring and Summer camping with all this “global warming” sitting on the ground near year-round?
What? It’s already the end of the 21st century?
With all the cold we have been seeing, we could use some Global Warming.
No no no no, global warming CAUSES snow! Sometimes it prevents it too!
Soft mushy snow that melts as soon as it hits 3400 feet above sea level and below. Sticky above that level. Yep. It’s CO2 enhanced rotten snow. Entirely odd for the second day of Spring. We should be having green CO2 enhanced rain instead of CO2 enhanced rotten snow.
All that heavy snow and rain….
…puts pressure on the faultlines.
We are now seeing quakes in California over the last 24hours
possibly from all the rain and warm snow overweighting the land….
but rest assured increasing earthquakes are predicted from the global warming as we all know… moist air, excess precipitation, temperature extremes, earth flexing, diaper rash, other surprises, etc…’cause that’s what the “qualified” experts have told us…
Check out all the “blue square” quakes (earthquakes over the last 24hours):
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/
I think the end of the world coming soon…. /sarc.
On second thought, I think I’ll just go skiing instead !!!! Whoopie !!!!
I heard the night skiing is really great now from the self illuminating effect compliments of fallout from Fukushima, but that’s just a rumor… happy skiing !!
Sonicfrog: OK. The last think is a somewhat private joke between us Californians! 🙂
T’aint funny, McGee….
John in Azusa
If the Sierra snowpack were really in decline, and snow was truly going to be a thing of the past…..Then WHY would Vail buy Northstar????
http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/14392
Why would Homewood be expanding???
Here in Reno, it’s the day after the first day of spring, 2011. I’ve been told over, and over that spring is coming earlier and earlier every year. There’s 2 ” of snow in my yard, and there’s car wrecks scattered all over the northwest. I hear the south end of town was equally bad. Ice everywhere.
Las Vegas is even cold.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/21/first-day-spring-wet-breezy-las-vegas/
I-80 was closed most of yesterday.
http://www.theunion.com/article/20110320/BREAKINGNEWS/110329994/1097
But back to the Sierra………. The ski resorts are spending big bucks to expand and enhance the skiing attraction. If they were really worried, they wouldn’t be risking the investment, unless of course, they don’t care if they lose because they’ll just shift the costs onto the taxpayers thru bankruptcy or bailouts.
NEWSFLASH!
“Tropical Storm Activity Hits A 40-Year Low – Possibly “Unprecedented”!”
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
http://notrickszone.com/2011/03/21/tropical-storm-activity-hits-a-40-year-low-possibly-unprecedented/
H/t Notrickszone
OOPS… I forgot…
California gets Earthquakes EVERYDAY !
Scratch the global warming cause for quakes.
attn TFN
As always, I am responsible for what I write which is on my blog. The automated forecasts you see on the site, or other sites, are automated and so blaming me for things I did not say is a simple distortion.
I guess I assumed Anthony’s readers ( you are correct about that, I am a friend and fan of Anthony) knew better.
My duties are long range and trend forecasting, and hitting extremes. The winter forecast I issued there, which called for the cold December but the turn around was on. The chill across the south now and the coming cold in eastern Europe were on. I was not perfect, but making cracks about day to day computed generated ideas, which is what you are looking at then blaming me is like me blaming you for anything that may happen to go wrong in your town, just cause you live there.
Both Joe D Aleo an I are blogging on our site, and as per most sites that are free, the free stuff is worth what it costs. The blogs will become premium down the road, with much more euro based posts than I have done before, but things you see for free unless signed by us, are not ours. But please, I am more than willing to take the hits for where I am wrong, but blame me for what I write, not what I dont
blessings
JB
Here’s a link to the current (I think practically updated daily with a few days lag) Snow Water Content of the Sierra Nevada. As can be seen, the average peak of April 1st is almost upon us, and we are not yet to to the level of 1982-1983, although it looks like this latest storm is not yet included. I was in CA in 1983, and the state came through just fine. The waterfalls in Yosemite Valley were spectacular that spring, and in June, the air was yellow with pine pollen which coated everything.
However, of course, it depends on whether the snowpack is melted all at once, or slowly. I read a commenter at the time saying, 100 more winters like this, and the glaciers in Yosemite will be once again on the move.
Watch this graph every few days to see what happens.
I can remember skiing Sugar Bowl in 1968 when two of three lifts were closed due to snow depths greater than the tower heights, riding the operable chair up the mountain with skis riding on the snow. They had dug out the snow to get the lift operating, with sheer snowbanks on either side. We descended a long flight of snow steps to get down to the lodge entrance with only the peak of the roof line visible above the snow. The more things change the more they stay the same.
March 21, 2011 at 7:34 am
…Mark Twain? … He would have been a terrific skeptic/realist… “The rumours of the snowpack’s death are greatly exagerrated…”
So now climate change is a ‘truth.’ Do they mean ‘truth’ in the sense that beauty and love are ‘truths’ or is it more in the sense like the law of gravity is a truth?
If the first case, perhaps we can expect some great works of poetry on this new found ‘truth’.
i guess you morons missed the part where it said “by the end of the 21st century”…
REPLY: and I guessed you missed the sarcasm while you were busy insulting people…grow up – Anthony
And if I remember correctly, the winter of 1982-1983 in California was the first time people were blaming”El Niño”. Yet this winter was La Niña. WUWT? Obviously, El Niño/La Niña only have a statistical correlation to weather, and sometimes other things dominate.
I have a lot in common with Jay Curtis above on becoming a skeptic. I’m also a Ph.D scientist and an avid Colorado skier and have enjoyed the “unrotten” snow this 2010-11 season.
Unlike Robb876 above, I don’t like fallacies or ad hominem attacks; I prefer to argue facts and reason and not ideological belief, although I’m prone to using a little sarcasm on occassion.
The anthropogenic greenhouse gas effect behaves like a bi-state insulator once the tipping point has been reached. It will sometimes trap the heat in, creating droughts, snowless winters, crop burnings, and BBQ summers. Other times it will trap the cold in, creating devastating floods, record winter snows, crop freezings, and ice box summers. That’s why it’s called the tipping point. It tips back and fourth. The evidence is all around us and can no longer be ignored. It’s worse than the models predicted – much worse than we could have imagined, scientists say. /sarc
Now I know what I want to do with my life… become a global warming journalist.