Some places have over 600 inches or 50 feet of snow!
NOAA’s National Weather Service had this to say about the snow season.
Check out the incredible snow amounts across the Sierra Nevada this winter season! Some ski resorts have received about 550 to 600+ inches of snow so far.
I hear in the Midwest the dams are under threat from all the runoff. Funny, I thought that is what dams were made for. Were they just built to make jobs and impress? Were they not made to handle water?
A dam on the Niobrara River in eastern Nebraska has failed, and failed badly. Took out the bridges when it collapsed. I don’t have a link to the video, but it is a stupendous failure.
Fake-news !
Climate church prophets said snow is a thing of the past and so it is.
2019 will be good wine year.
Here in the upper midwest, we seem to be having a “normal” spring, meaning there are no extremes of temperature and we get rain instead of snow. Also, the redwinged blackbirds and grackles returned on time and showed a vague interest in the food I put out, which means that they are getting regular food, such as ground-dwelling bugs, elsewhere.
I’m looking forward to a NORMAL summer, whatever that is. But I still have 4 feet of snow piled up in my yard from my neighbor shoveling the sidewalk. All of us still have big piles, but they’ll melt and keep the grass green.
And these ecohippies expect people whose brains aren’t fried by hysteria and soy milk to listen to them? I do see a future for them. They will all be living in walled cities, and will have to pay for passes to go outside the walls. Their food will be delivered in remote-controlled trains that enter, unload large pallets, and leave through secret tunnels. Wait – wasn’t that the plot of a series of dystopia novels?
Domed cities of Brave New World.
Walls don’t work
Au contraire, walls do work. In THX1138, people lived in an enclosed “city” or habitat and were punished and sometimes executed for going outside. It was “just a movie”, but there is nothing to say it couldn’t happen if it’s allowed to happen.
While you’re sorting that out, you’re only a “captive” if you allow it to happen.
Meanwhile, at the Rideau Canal Skateway
in Canada, naturally frozen skating is apparently going the way of the dinosaur. The children are gonna be left with wishing they had a river they could skate away on.
“PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 6, 2018”
Bruce here’s a link to a report on 2019…. “longest in years”, well since 2014-15, 71 days, 59 open for skating. Although the commission closed it 10 March, I’m sure they could have reopened if they wanted to as prolonged cold settled in after that. On the other hand at this time of year sun angle becomes increasing problematic for outdoor ice even in fairly cold weather.
Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/5042785/rideau-canal-skateway-closes-long-season/
Is it possible Al Gore bought a retirement home in the Sierra Nevadas – that would be the logical explanation. The more time he spends in a location the more it looks like a winter wonderland.
Ya Algore is the Snowmageddon God.
I’m really confused. Wasn’t this the same snowpack that was in its death spiral a few years ago and about to disappear?
The newly-reconstructed Oroville Dam spillway may get a real workout this spring once that stuff melts.
Take a look at the LADWP snow survey website. This year is actually quite a bit behind 16-17 in terms of water content. Also it is interesting to note that the wettest and the driest years both occurred in the last five years. https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/ladwp/aboutus/a-water/a-w-losangelesaqueduct/a-w-laa-snowsurvey;jsessionid=DvLLcTyYTCvp0DzgGcsWgh3D1n10wnpDctqWMCgTGChbscXYvcJr!1088054924?_afrLoop=220799458871715&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=null#%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dnull%26_afrLoop%3D220799458871715%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3D1crfx167ui_4
In three days, the cool front will come closer to California.
There will be even more snow in the mountains.
Can you doubt the strength of the winter polar vortex (as compared to the weak El Nino)?
Most of this years snow and ice will sublimate away by end of May. Or worse case by end of June.
it happens that way every year.
I started building my Tahoe property in 1979. In 1982 we had an exceptional El Nino with about 12 feet of base at my front door. This year its about 6 to 8 feet of base so not too large but not too small either.
snow today gone tomorrow think sublimation.
Quick! Build more dams to catch the runoff!