DavidE - 11-30-2012 at 10:11 AM
HOLY COW! And Come On Down!
Copied & Pasted From The Weather Channel Site---------------------------
If anyone lived on the summit of California's Mount Shasta, they'd need a mighty big shovel to dig out of the snowstorm that will bury the mountain in
astronomical amounts of snow through the weekend -- amounts that could flirt with world records.
The Thursday morning National Weather Service summit forecast for Shasta predicted an incredible 33 to 39 inches of snow -- just for Thursday alone.
(By comparison, Atlanta, Ga., has reported 38.9 inches of snow since March 1, 1989 -- a period of over 23 years.)
But it gets crazier.
Add in another 37 to 43 inches of snow Thursday night, and additional amounts ranging from 21 to 35 inches every 12 hours through Saturday night,
plus a light dusting of 11 to 17 inches on Sunday...
...and you get a storm total of 176 inches. On the low end.
Add up the high end of the numbers and you get a forecast maximum of 218 inches of snow in four days!
How would that kind of four-day snow total stack up? Consider these major all-time snowfall records that would be broken with a 200-inch snowfall:
According to Weather Underground, the world record for a single snowstorm is 189 inches in six days -- guess where? Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in
February 1959.
The National Climatic Data Center says California's heaviest four-day snowstorm was 145 inches at the Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort near Echo Summit
in March-April 1982.
The U.S. four-day snow record is 163 inches at Thompson Pass, Alaska, in December 1955.
If those numbers seem a little too hard to wrap your mind around, consider this:
The snowiest season on record in snowy Syracuse, N.Y., only yielded 192.1 inches of snow in 1992-93.
If the tallest living player in NBA history, Gheorghe Muresan, were to balance a life-size wax statue of himself on his head, two feet of snow
would bury the top of the statue.
The minimum clearance for an interstate overpass in rural areas is 16 feet. A 218-inch snow depth would cover the highway up to the bottom of the
overpass, with 26 inches of snow on top of that.
Of course, if official records are to be broken, this extreme snow will have to fall at a location where someone can measure it. Today's Mount Shasta
Ski Park tops out just above 6,500 feet in elevation, much lower than the old Ski Bowl was in 1959, and with this storm carrying so much warm air,
snowfall amounts are likely to drop tremendously by the time you get down to that elevation.
Nobody lives on Mount Shasta's summit, and we hope nobody is foolish enough to climb the 14,179-foot mountain for a few days, so we may never know
exactly how much snow this storm ends up dumping.
For the surrounding terrain, which is nearly 10,000 feet lower than the summit, this will be a massive rain storm with the potential for over a foot
of rain.
river santa cruz moutains
captkw - 11-30-2012 at 11:26 AM
the san lorinzo river and all the many creeks around her are getting full and fast !! the main river (S.L.) was about 40 CFS yesterday...5 min. ago
is 1875 CFS and climbing like Gecko out of a beer bottle...straight up !!! YIKES !! CA needs a nice winter ......K&T :cool ...........RO
ROO..pubic safty broadcats on the radio(KPIG) now about flash flooding and high water...nothing new around the Rewoods !!!! update 4
o and hwy 101 shutdown..flooding and 1 drowning,,soquel creek and my creek is now a
raging river !!! update sun 11am grapvine was /is shut down I-5 and tonight is the BiG one !!
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Dont forget Mammoth Mountain
durrelllrobert - 12-1-2012 at 11:33 AM
Here is last seasons report as of March 2011:
**Friday afternoon update: Mammoth has surpassed its record; as of 2 p.m. the resort had recieved a season-total of 589 inches, with more
falling and on the way.
With snow falling again Wednesday at Mammoth Mountain, and more expected over the next few days, the question is no longer whether the Eastern Sierra
resort will realize a record snowfall level for a single season, but when that will occur.
As of Wednesday morning Mammoth had received 540 inches of the white stuff for the 2010-11 season, with 112 inches having fallen so far in March. Up
to a foot was expected by day's end. That'd bring the total to 552 inches.
Since Mammoth began keeping records in 1969-70, the top season was 2005-06, when 578 inches (or 48 feet) fell on the resort's slopes.
Mammoth didn't reach that number until May, after receiving 118 inches in April.
A new record could be set before the end of March, possibly before or during this weekend. Snow is in the forecast through Saturday, and again
Tuesday. If the record isn't set by then, another storm is expected Friday, April 1.
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Barry A. - 12-1-2012 at 12:02 PM
This is why we live on top of a hill here in Redding, CA--------crazy rains (& wind) for sure!!!! and it ain't over yet by a long shot!!!! If it
would ever clear up, I can't wait to see Mt. Shasta highly visible from here to the north.
Barry
barry & cali"s tonight's the BIG one !!!
captkw - 12-1-2012 at 12:17 PM
Barry A. - 12-1-2012 at 12:38 PM
Yep!!!!! Exciting!!!! I wonder how NOMAD Vagabundo is doing------he lives up fairly near the snow-line near Mt. Shasta, I think.
What is really worriesome to me is that Shasta Lake will receive a huge amount of water from all this, and where will they put it all later in the
season??? Spells trouble for all the cities and farms down-stream from Shasta Lake when the Feds. are forced to release huge amounts of water from
Shasta dam later this winter (maybe). Trinity Lake west of the divide probably has the room, but not Shasta Lake, I am thinking?!?!?!?!!?.
Barry
4 countys on Servere weather alerts now !!
captkw - 12-1-2012 at 07:37 PM
reminds me of redd foxx and it's "the big one" LOL santa cruz,,monterey,,san mateo,,santa clara are going get some rain..Yeep eee !!! K&T
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Nat. weather adv.servere alert now !!
captkw - 12-2-2012 at 10:05 AM
Flash flooding and some area's 1 inch per hr....power has been off and on..my place is with a 3 KW genset that keeps kicking on and off !! (auto)
Time to start thinking BAJA and sunshine !! having a coffee in the rain or a tecate in the sun ?? wont have to linger on that question long !!!
K&T