Big ol’ storm hits the Sierra–ten feet!!? of snow

They’ve closed Yosemite National Park until Sunday or Monday.  Big storm.  It should put us around normal for the snowpack, which is good.

Mother nature always has a way of self correcting itself :)

Mother nature always has a way of self correcting itself ”

Herself.

You must be related :)

I was astounded by the amount of traffic over Donner Pass. It goes to show that in fact we do not learn from history, and repeat silly behaviors regardless. At least this time they know where the lunch buffet is.

I’m so conflicted. Of course the snow is good and needed for our state’s watershed health and who doesn’t love fresh POW to carve turns in, but after last year’s record snowfall I was looking forward to a normal or even early entry into the high Sierra.

Same. Big same.

Even with this last storm my understanding is that  the sierra snowpack is only at  ~normal levels.  Nothing  at all like last year. 10 feet of  snow condenses down to three fairly quickly.

I check out the Tuolumne Winter Rangers page  for weekly updates on snow  levels  in that area.  As well as pictures. again,  snow pack has been pretty mediocre until recently.

https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/update-for-march-6-2024.htm

Note the new snow in March is in addition to the February totals. So yeah, it’s  adding up.  Still nothing like last year.

It’s shaping up to be about average, with some variation depending on the exact location.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snowsurvey_sno/PAGE6