Another Boring Forecast

A system from the southwest pushes up towards the four-corners this week, but it just doesn’t look to have enough power to make it even close to our patrol zone.  Then, maybe the large low pressure that looks to be great for Tahoe will just barely spillover into our patrol zone over the weekend.  Here […]

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A Little Snow on Saturday

A storm system to our north will allow a bit of snow for our patrol zone on Saturday.  Here are the model forecasts for Saturday snow: 3” – Canadian and WRF Models 2” – European Model 1” – American Model Saturday will be cloudy (and hopefully snowing) with highs around 30.  Sunday will be party […]

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Two Fast Moving Systems – Wednesday and Sunday/Monday

On Wednesday a storm mostly to our north will result in some spillover snow in our patrol zone and lots of wind.  Here are the model forecasts for Wednesday’s snow: 5” – Canadian Model 3” – American Model 2” – European and WRF Models There may be lingering snow showers on Thursday and Friday with […]

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Ridge of High Pressure

(My apologies that the last few weather posts were not online, but only circulated in the Tuesday / Friday Calls, but it looks like I’m able to post again online too.) We’re sitting under a ridge of high pressure, so will be waiting on some snow for a while.  Both weekend days are warm, with […]

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Year End Wrap Up – An Iconic (Model) Year; and an Average Snow Year

With the May 6-7 storm just finished, I think it’s time to write a season wrap-up.  So, here goes: How did the Models Perform this Year?                 Like all of the prior years’ analysis with the ten million caveats I won’t bore you with again, I did the math, and we have a new winner […]

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