California precipitation event 12/17 – 12/19

Started by Kelly, Dec 18 2010 05:23 AM

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#1 Kelly

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Posted 18 December 2010 - 05:23 AM

California precipitation event 12/17 – 12/19

California is now receiving a significant precipitation event.
This website gives moving precipitation maps and also gives moving maps that compare current precip to a ten year average – projected precip is 200% greater than normal and will last a number of days and no doubt will be a challenge for higher altitude resorts in California and later this week Utah...
This is a relatively new way to quantify weather and worth a look…dialups beware this will take a few minutes to load due to the many images it takes for the moving picture.
Here is a screen capture from December 17 8:00 pm

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Link: http://amsu.cira.colostate.edu/gpstpw/

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#2 Emax

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Posted 18 December 2010 - 10:46 AM

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#3 liftmech

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Posted 23 December 2010 - 06:22 AM

Quite the event. I hear Mammoth, for instance, has received about 13 feet so far this season, and much of it in the last week.

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#4 cjb

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Posted 23 December 2010 - 09:59 AM

Not this season, this storm, as in since last Friday the 17th. Here in Tahoe we are over 20 feet for the season.

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#5 floridaskier

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Posted 23 December 2010 - 01:12 PM

Park City area has gotten about 6-7 feet of sticky, wet snow over the last week out of this storm. It finally let up today and the sun poked out after 5 days of nearly nonstop snow. It's been a mess around here. Snow is piled 15 feet high in the parking lots all around town, there were trees down all over the place at DV, ice and snow on every surface. Trees fell on the power line feeding Jupiter lift at PCMR, so it's shut down until further notice. It looked more like an Eastern storm the way the snow stuck to everything.

This is the Empire lodge at DV the other day:

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