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11-11-2017, 05:05 PM #226
When did jaliscos paint the men's toilet?!
I spent the day filling holes in the family quiver. Scored at the xc ski swap, scored at nuts, scored some small insulated kincos at ace, and scored some gear repair stuff at ace.
The south face of the Sierra buttes looked good from afar this morning.
Now back to putzing around with mountains of pine rounds at home. Looking forward to Monday/Tuesday.
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11-11-2017, 07:37 PM #227
Up at Rose all day as Team Falcons begins for the 17/18 season. This is the view from the deck, and I wasn't motivated to get out and ski Wizard chair. But, my kid skied for five hours, met his coach etc.., so it was a productive day. My kid reported decent coverage with a few floating rocks on the two trails they skied. Hope they can keep blowing snow.
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11-12-2017, 10:45 AM #228Registered User
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Keep an eye on next weekend, according to BA there could be heavy rain above 10,000'
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11-12-2017, 11:19 AM #229
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11-12-2017, 12:11 PM #230
Models are in decent agreement for a dousing for the Sierras. Wed/Thurs of this week looking more and more interesting.
Right now, the jet seems aimed a little too far North for us to get low elevation snow. A little further south, and it might feel like last winter all over again. Way further south and we might end up with a proper Tahoe dump to lake level.
I have seen the potential for super high snow levels, but I'm going to look at pretty images from ~`114 hours out instead...
Also, don't come at me with "oooohhh you're going to jinx us!", I'll point you to early January of last years thread....
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...t=#post4894058
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11-12-2017, 12:50 PM #231
Today's noon gfs run is very wet indeed. Surprisingly so. Considering how it sat a week ago. Been an active pattern recently. If it is that wet, I sure hope it is cold.
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11-12-2017, 04:54 PM #232
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11-13-2017, 12:30 PM #233
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11-13-2017, 12:49 PM #234
There's definitely been a trend in recent years where the storms coming in always project warmer 7-10 days out and then seem to get colder just a day or two before they arrive. Let's hope that's the case.
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11-13-2017, 01:02 PM #235Registered User
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11-13-2017, 01:05 PM #236
My .02 is this looks like one where even day of models are going to have huge spreads and could be a huge bust or gangbusters dump. Won't know until late Wed night if we'll get any significant snow below 7500.
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11-13-2017, 01:13 PM #237
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11-13-2017, 01:14 PM #238Registered User
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While on the ever-fun topic of snow levels, here's the trends over the last 10 winters (Dec-Feb) for the northern Sierra Nevada based upon the snow level radar network (left y-axis) and a calculation of snow fraction, or the fraction of precipitation falling as snow calculated using a super exciting calibrated hyperbolic tangent function at two weather stations (right y-axis; direction is reversed however). Black dots are the median snow level for a given winter and the capped bars show the upper and lower quartiles (top and bottom 25%).
From the slope estimates, the rates of snow level rise have been around 70 m (or 230 ft) per year with a decrease in snow fraction of about 3.3% per year. Boooo. It would be better if the lines sloped the other direction, but of course we know that a few low elevation snow level storms can really make a season $$$$$. Let's hope for some more of those soon.
This comes from a paper that was just accepted for publication yesterday after all kinds of fun peer review. When it's online I'll put the link as we explore why snow levels may be generally rising over the last decade.
Field research on winter hydrometeorology in dryland regions with Dr. Morales. Early 2017.
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11-13-2017, 02:04 PM #239
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11-13-2017, 02:50 PM #240
Honestly, the current BA forecast looks perfect. You want this stuff to come down thick and heavy, right side up with a coldish finish. That is exactly what it looks like. Low base areas may suffer a little with thin cover, but at least the stuff between 7-9k will stick.
Will need to see how this pans out, along with the system next Sun-Mon. Current gfs has wide spread rain across the state. And quite warm. If this were to happen, and more of a reason to have a thick, wet base. Cold fluff would just wash away. Pray for fat high pressure.
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11-13-2017, 03:23 PM #241Registered User
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Only one lap on both days. Friday kinda sucked since I only brought up 70mm waisted and short rock skis and definitely could have used more surface area, but Saturday was perfect for it. Didn't hit anything either day which is nice. On Saturday there was a 5cm of fist hardness new snow on 5cm finger hardness crust on top of 35cmish of four finger hardness snow.
TLDR; Ski faster. Quit breathing. Don't crash.
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11-13-2017, 03:36 PM #242
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11-13-2017, 05:37 PM #243
sierra today. about a foot of very dense at the top running out at about 7700'
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11-13-2017, 05:42 PM #244Registered User
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Sierra is open?
TLDR; Ski faster. Quit breathing. Don't crash.
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11-13-2017, 05:44 PM #245
no but they are friendly to hikers. 'this land is your land' was how they put it
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11-13-2017, 08:06 PM #250
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