We had just enough to coat the grass around campus. Up at Alta-Collins, there is a 5" snow total with 0.27" of water equivalent, clearly on the low end of the most likely range we discussed yesterday. Maybe they will pick up a bit more, but these are pretty paltry numbers and nothing to get excited about.
I don't know what you people have done to irritate Mother Nature, but kiss and make up now. This has been going on for 5 years now. FIVE LONG YEARS. I'm not getting any younger and I don't want this year to be a sixth.
Looks like the Oquirrh's are the big winner with 10" at Rocky Basin Settlement. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=&sid=RBSU1&num=48&raw=0&dbn=m&banner=header
ReplyDeleteYup another win for the NCAR ensemble, which gave that area the highest odds.
DeleteI may have to take responsibility for the trends the past 5 years. The last season I was here before moving to Kansas was '10-'11, the last good year. I have since come back to SLC, but maybe Mother Nature is still upset with me.
ReplyDeleteSnow Liquid Ratio of 18.5. If I am not mistaken, that is higher than the climatological value for the Wasatch, correct?
ReplyDeleteAverage is 12 to 1 (8.4% water content).
ReplyDeleteJust got done reading about the ark storms of winter 1861-1862. That weather pattern didn't really get going until late December. What we need our atmospheric rivers hitting the California coast.
ReplyDeletePast 5 years here and across much of the west (outliers being last season Nrn CA and Pac NW). Coinciding with the warmest global temperatures in modern history. Regional climatic shift underway?
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