Not just Cali .. the whole West has had a dismal snow year (except for our little bit of Colorado, which is about "average").
http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/march2015.html
or ...

North American Model (NAM) is essentially WRF with a different (NMM) dynamical core, running over Nth America, so you won't find "NAM" for Europe per se - you can find WRF as Klar pointed out.
GFS =...

Poor snow is all relative ...
http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/march2015.html

To continue with the thread drift ...
Apparently 1913 was greater than 2003 for Denver, but the 2003 storm was centered further west (in Clear Creek County), so ranking storms depends somewhat on...

https://www.tetongravity.com/images/ci-images/39653/mhp.gif

Maybe not the worst, but likely running a good second!
Most of the west coast, from the Cascades through the Sierra is running at the...

https://www.tetongravity.com/images/ci-images/39355/co_48_delswe_2015022322.gif

Off the dial in the SW and a nice gradient.

As a data based contest it seems vague (IMHO) to have the result judged by a panel. How about some objective goals that can be tested and measured with data.
The selection of weather and snow data...

https://www.tetongravity.com/images/ci-images/36502/11j21s.gif

180% of almost nothing ...

A semi-serious (though extremely rough) guess just based on geography would probably be in the zone of 100-200" per year (to put it in skier units; Alta & Squaw get 500" on average) - but I could be...

Not specifically Colorado, but some of you might be interested as a pre-season read (or not) ...

http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/snowfall.html

... this may be of interest to some here.
I recently added the California Cooperative Snow Survey stations to my system

http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/california.html

so...

As an FYI, you can click on the station dots on this page and you can see the current state of the snowpack (updated daily) relative to prior years - that is for stations with snow water equivalent...

http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/

If you go to my site (best on a desktop/laptop) you can click on the individual stations and bring up the plots I showed before. These are updated every...

February has been good!
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If you want individual stations, click on the dots seen in the maps here : http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/
(The site works best on a desktop/laptop; still functional on iPad/iPhone/Android,...

Steamboat & CB + Irwin (always Irwin?!) the big winners so far - haven't seen that map look so Christmas-like for a while.
And all aboard for the I-70 junkshow ...
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Tahoe is suffering ...

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Also suffering is Washington and Oregon (Three Cks Meadow is in the vicinity of Mt. Bachelor/Bend)

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... for those that have looked at the new Management Plan (link above), if there is to be cat skiing on Trelease + Dry Gulch, does that mean (a) the area will be subject to avy control and (b)...

... and the winner was Schofield Pass (NNW of CB) with 2.3 inches of water equivalent in last 24hrs. Mildly jealous of those in the Elks and RFV but Loveland was quite a bit of fun this morning with...

Snow will be good in many places - question is, what terrain will be open?
Will the goods under Chair #1 be open at Loveland tomorrow or will Winter Park/MJ be the better bet? (assuming roads are...

Given natural snow conditions I guess I wouldn't be expecting much outside of a WROD. You can still have a fun day on a WROD if you weren't expecting anything more. Check the forecast and hope?? ...

Hmm .. whole SNOTEL network down since 2am :mad:

I could probably point you to such a site .... That link has all states in detail and you can put your mouse on the stations to get names & quantities etc. Maps updated hourly, but the historic...

Top stuff. Made with thought and a good reflection of people up that way.
Brings back memories from hitching, hiking and paddling much of the same region.

So you're saying Bean, Soups and yourself would be part of the problem if road capacity increased :wink:

Lots of talk about bus lanes etc. How much would people be willing to pay for a return...

Perhaps some caveats may apply, but yeah ... Downs-Thomson Paradox and Braess's Paradox

There are not too many alternatives in the network to I-70, but there is the null case of people currently...

http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/HIST/05K14S.gif

That was non-crap! Nice job.

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Yeah, I agree, but there's just not that much data for AK...
There is an additional pillow station in SE Alaska at Long Lake, Sth East of Juneau, but that's it. It's not shown due to map...

Washington - I would expect you might find something

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Indeed it has puked there. Over 1.3 inches or 33mm of water equivalent in the last 48 hours in the coastal mountains.

I've dumped one of these in most of the regional threads because folks tend to only stick with their local thread and look no further, so here's the Montana version. Updated hourly and now with some...

Oops .. should be fixed now. The links to the BC stations should work. Alberta stations are not done yet.

The image is just a more convenient way of seeing where snow fell - this tends to work...

http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/wyoming.html

Click on the dots ...

and Lander!

I put this in the BC Interior thread, so may as well post it here as well ...
I recently added the BC & AB stations to my system. Not sure it'll be that much use given the low station density, but...

Just added the BC & AB stations to my system... the station coverage is quite sparse compared to some US states, but none the less here it is. Data should update hourly and I hope to get the historic...

I've spammed a few of the other threads so here's the AK version.
Snow monitoring in AK not as intense as other states, but it may still be of use to some of you as a quick look type of thing -...

Watch this space (I recently added the non-SNOTEL Cali stations and will update other aspects soon). More for the backcountry types ...
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... might as well put in plug for quick, easy SNOTEL data
http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/tahoe.html

Though Tahoe folks are probably over-saturated with info at this point.
This...

Quick and easy-to-digest hourly SNOTEL info.
http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/oregon.html

These pages see big use in CO, but aren't as well known in other states.
If you click on the...

For those interested in watching the decline of the snowpack across the West, I have added a plot that shows 24hr melt to my site

http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/

(I'll remove the...

They're updating ... see link below or plot above.

Here it comes, working over the Sth West (please make it up to the 'boat!) ....

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I thought Copper skied well today - mostly hit the back, Copper Bowl. Still a few rocks around (Sth'ly aspect) so you have to watch a bit. Some nice shots of untracked with patrol doing directed...

Interesting idea with induction - out of the box!
Iron gloves?

http://www.mossonline.com/images/products/pph_77_s.jpg :tongue:

The way I see it, you want the heated element to be within the...

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(Bummer!)

GJ Forecast Discussion 9:43pm Tue

... STILL THE STORM EFFICIENTLY USES WHAT IS AVAILABLE WITH THE
DENDRITIC CRYSTAL GROWTH REGION NEARLY SATURATED AT 700-600MB FOR
ALL OF SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH...

http://cires.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/RANK/all_rank_swe.gif

Won't necessarily tell you what is good, but will certainly tell you what is bad - e.g. CO
WA, BC & Alps sounds about right ... Alps...

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