OFFICIAL TAHOE 18/19 STOKE, CONDITIONS, WEATHER THREAD

[hercule33]

You're moving the goalposts and arguing with yourself, dude. Nobody suggested 1 foot is greater than three feet. Just as nobody suggested 10 feet in 8-12 hours would result in better conditions than that amount over 3-4 days. Where you went wrong is when you misconstrued post #1863. And made a blanket statement about avalanche science that isn't true (at least without additional context).

The latest forecast, if it pans out, is a giant storm. That's the point. One that would have resulted in road closures in the good old days of 2011 or whenever the fuck you're talking about.

My bad. I didn’t see the latest forecast and was going off old information. Now I will eat crow and STFU.

[powdork]

Changing the subject i just noticed that wunderground and intellicast have just merged, and i can no longer find my favorite satellite imagery although the notice says everything is still there. I don't like the North Pacific Satellite they do offer and can't find anything worthwhile.
For what it's worth i have always found everything they do to be lacking in some regard, and have never included any of their links on my sites for this reason.
But somehow they keep winning.

[LightRanger]

New GOES imagery direct from NASA is pretty. Was messing with it yesterday, but haven't spent a ton of time looking at it yet.

[sruffian]

got damn boys we gonna have ourselves a week

personally my plans involve cold pow and *not* being affected by any influx of ppl

it's not getting warm through next weekend

what's not to love?

[powdork]

I do already link to that but can't find one that GOES further out in the pacific than this (I'll keep looking) https://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/wcir.html.

Also, i sent an email to wunderground about this and turns out I ended up on the weather.com site. I thought they were competitors all this time.

[skier666]

Enroute and spitting rain since left SF at 1:45pm. It’s like I’m driving toward a sun gap in the East while being chased by part I of the storm.

Intellicast situation bums me out since those were my clickable radar & satellite icons on the front page of my phone. The wuderground pages don’t seem to always be updated.

[powdork]

Found it but it's still not as good and requires users to navigate to animate once they get there
https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/goes/a...nusband05.html

[2_1_3]

shhheeeeeeiiiiiiitttttt

y'all are about to get HyPhy ZynOpTiX out of retirement

oh lord

[kimchijajonshim]

After hemming and hawing all day and monitoring NOAA, I decided to go for it this weekend. If I wasn't flying out of town on Monday, I'd just wait for Tuesday or Wednesday, but I can't enjoy Tahoe pow from the East Coast.

Changed my mind. Already at Truckee but driving back home tonight before snow hits. Spent the day in Truckee today working remotely, took a few afternoon turns at Northstar ... and just felt off. After ripping Jackson Hole last week I was flopping around like a jerry. At Northstar of all places!

Also got a real bad feeling about this storm. Too much uncertainty what'll be open tomorrow, too much uncertainty whether I'll even be able to get home Sunday. Especially after an epic trip in Jackson Hole previous weekend and compiling 3-4 top 10 all time days this season... I'm good with sitting this one out. Ill visit my parents and spend some time with friends I've been neglecting since ski season started.

I may angle to postpone my business trip so I can play hooky Tuesday... Let's hope!

[LightRanger]

Found it but it's still not as good and requires users to navigate to animate once they get there
https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/goes/a...nusband05.html

What about this one? https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/nepac/flash-vis.html

shhheeeeeeiiiiiiitttttt

y'all are about to get HyPhy ZynOpTiX out of retirement

oh lord

Pretty water trains, for sure.

[neufox47]

To put low snow levels in context, below 500 m occurs less than 2% of the time. Not impossible, but quite infrequent!

Also note that last year we had the highest snow levels observed in April during that damn typhoon.
CSWY = Cool season of water year (Oct-Apr). Multiply the F(x) value by 100 to get % of time.

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Being classified as a 'snow watcher' in the KQED article today is almost as good as my ca. 2012 interview with the RGJ where I was quoted as being concerned with "fluff management" while skiing the Cooper Spur LOL:
https://www.kqed.org/science/1936797...ierra-snowpack

This guy needs to post more.

So what’s it like managing a bunch of fluffers?

[skier666]

Light flurries over Donner Pass at 5:20pm

[dookeyXXX]

...Spent the day in Truckee today working remotely, took a few afternoon turns at Northstar ... and just felt off. After ripping Jackson Hole last week I was flopping around like a jerry. At Northstar of all places!...

Just about everything I rode at The Star today was like refrozen coral reef, so don't feel bad about "being off" and "flopping around like a jerry".

[old goat]

Lot of people flopping around today--flat light + weird snow. At squaw almost no one off the groomers. Most of KT closed for ice. As for this next storm, bring it on (hope it works out better for us than it did for George W).

[lepistoir]

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING MORON!

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[kimchijajonshim]

Yea snow was pretty odd today. Slush layer that wasn't deep enough to "surf" and was oddly grabby, a firm layer that was too unpredictable to carve, and flat light. Fast and unpredictable. Not ideal.

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[bobz]

Traffic pretty light over Donner as of an hour or so ago. 32F at the pass. I’m beginning to think we’re going to be “stuck” or actually stuck into mid-week. Oh well!

[powdork]

Just started raining hard here in Meyers. Did not see the usual nonstop friday flow of headlights coming into town as I drove home tonight

[Westmeister]

That 4k line off Devil's pk. in Soda Spr. to the Am. Rvr. East facing, after this low snow level.

[TahoeJ]

Rained all night at 6350... switched to snow after 4am or so with an inch or two of accumulation. Probably pretty decent above 7k, or will be soon enough.

[lepistoir]

Rained all night at 6350... switched to snow after 4am or so with an inch or two of accumulation. Probably pretty decent above 7k, or will be soon enough.

Interesting. I thought I woke up to quiet in the middle of the night but now it’s back to pitter patter and [emoji724] accum.
6366’ in Kings Beach.

[Esses]

Still raining at 6600 ft here in Meyers.


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[theetruscan]

somewhere between rain and snow at the bottom of alpine.


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[Ottime]

Rained an inch plus at the coast last night. Pretty big break between bands this morning. 50F here, so it reemit should be colder up there. Somehow the KW snow stake is currently in the sun, while the Cornice cam shows a blazing storm. Odd. Could it be the snow stake cam is not working properly? Now back to considering a Sunday day trip. Or to BV for safe travels.