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2021-12-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

8 feet of global warming possible in mountains as powerful storm lashes California with rain, wind, snow

[USA Today] A powerful storm walloped California with heavy rain and snow on Tuesday, as several inches of rain fell in the Los Angeles area and up to 8 feet of snow was expected in the Sierra Nevada.

The storm wreaked travel havoc across the state due to the rain and snow. It also raised the threat of mudslides in areas scarred by wildfires, prompting evacuation orders in southern California.

Nearly 7 inches of rain fell before dawn in one area of Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles, the National Weather Service said. The ongoing heavy rain will continue to create areas of flash flooding, with urban areas, roads and small streams the most vulnerable, the Weather Service said.

Further north, in the central Sierra Nevada, a whopping 2 to 4 feet of snow was forecast to pile up with local amounts to 6 to 8 feet over the highest elevations by Tuesday night, AccuWeather said.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-15 09:31|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 wreaked s.b. wrought a la "What hath God worought?"
Avoids confusion with reeked as in, 'reeked of gerbil-worming hysteria'

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-15 09:41|| 2021-12-15 09:41|| Front Page Top

#2 The skinny. I'd add "wrecked havoc" is colloquial buy accepter.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 09:45|| 2021-12-15 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Colloquial but accepted. It's already that kind of day here.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 09:45|| 2021-12-15 09:45|| Front Page Top

Yes, torrential rains and a winter snowfall alert are in effect. We're closing all California highways and bridges. No one comes in, no one leaves.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-15 09:49|| 2021-12-15 09:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Except at the border!

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 09:51|| 2021-12-15 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6
WOW !! its December in the Sierra /Cascades Mts.

An its snowing.... who would have ever thought it possible? ☺</big>

Posted by NN2N1 2021-12-15 10:12|| 2021-12-15 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 And, ya know, here on the Space Coast, I do not miss trying to unlimber and start my snow blower as I did for 30 some years in SWPA.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 10:15|| 2021-12-15 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 you can see the snow squalls for a while yet at the Mount Rose Ski webcams

https://skirose.com/the-mountain-web-cams/

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-15 10:38|| 2021-12-15 10:38|| Front Page Top

#9 I was a Seven Springs season pass guy myself. I literally dropped off my skis and boots for resale at Willi's before I left town. They mailed me a check.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 10:41|| 2021-12-15 10:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing beat night skiing when it was snowing so hard you couldn't see or hear and just had to inch down the hill. Oh, and The Foggy Goggle at the bottom.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 10:43|| 2021-12-15 10:43|| Front Page Top

#11 We once were in Snowshoe, West Virginia when the conditions were just right for fog with about 5’ visibility. It was warm enough that the snow was pretty slow, a good thing under the circumstances, and absolutely magical as people and landscape appeared and disappeared from view in the hushed silence. But that isn’t the kind of thing one deliberately seeks for a ski trip.

In the Rockies 8’ of base is not unusual, as I recall, though it generally doesn’t arrive overnight.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-15 11:15|| 2021-12-15 11:15|| Front Page Top

#12 I never skied WV, but I used to drive by the Cacapon resort and wish that I did.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 11:17|| 2021-12-15 11:17|| Front Page Top

#13 related note is that these storms replenish reservoirs.

e.g., Lake Oroville has risen about 50 feet since mid October, about 30 feet in the two days after the late October storm and about 10 feet since the storm this week started

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-15 11:18|| 2021-12-15 11:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Until CA stops wasting its water on the Snail Darter, God can't send enough.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 11:31|| 2021-12-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#15 And yet again, all the plans and money set aside in bonds authorized in the past few years, for drought relief that was promised for catchment basins and other containment structures, has produced not one additional foot of above ground storage. So all the water in SoCal and much of it in NorCal will flow in huge torrents of the LA River concrete channel from the rain, and in the spring melt of the snowpack. And the fools and clueless who haven't left yet bemoan more population growth, crime and endless scarcity of public utilities like water and power. Socialism returning the Golden State to 3rd world conditions as wealth is redistributed, stolen and wasted on a failed political philosophy. YJCMTSU!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-12-15 12:47|| 2021-12-15 12:47|| Front Page Top

#16 But the high speed train...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-15 12:48|| 2021-12-15 12:48|| Front Page Top

#17 new storm started this pm, will add another foot or two to sierra snowpack and also some snow in foothills

another storm predicted for Mon-Thur next week

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-15 16:20|| 2021-12-15 16:20|| Front Page Top

#18 Colorado Springs seeing 75-102 mph winds now.

Promises to be a big mess.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-12-15 16:42|| 2021-12-15 16:42|| Front Page Top