ChrisL Posted March 9, 2023 Share #1 Posted March 9, 2023 So our mountains are still digging from under historic snowfall, the roads leading up to the mountains are just opening to non essential traffic and now this… An atmospheric river of warm tropical moisture is due to hit us in the coming days. The higher elevations will get more snow, the snow that fell in the lower elevations will get rained on and will likely melt. The weather heads are calling for flooding and mudflows in our mountains below 8K feet elevation. (The previous storm dropped snow as low as 1K feet). For those of us not in the mountains we get yet another storm with even more rain. Definitely a drought busting winter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted March 9, 2023 Share #2 Posted March 9, 2023 Not good news for those in the path of more rain and melting snow. Mudslides are not a fun experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share #3 Posted March 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, Parsnip Totin Jack said: Not good news for those in the path of more rain and melting snow. Mudslides are not a fun experience. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around what happens when 10’ of accumulated snow gets hit by a couple of inches of rain. I don’t know that I have ever seen this happen to this extent in my lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Parr8hed Posted March 9, 2023 Popular Post Share #4 Posted March 9, 2023 I can picture a meme in my head of the Pawn Stars guy. Can we get some relief from this drought? "Best I can do is torrential floods" 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted March 9, 2023 Share #5 Posted March 9, 2023 I have loved ones in flood zones. They haven't had water problems for a long while. We just hope they will keep this trend of their home not being flooded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted March 9, 2023 Share #6 Posted March 9, 2023 25 minutes ago, ChrisL said: I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around what happens when 10’ of accumulated snow gets hit by a couple of inches of rain. I don’t know that I have ever seen this happen to this extent in my lifetime. Remember what happened North of Yellowstone last year, with rain on snow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share #7 Posted March 9, 2023 51 minutes ago, sheep_herder said: Remember what happened North of Yellowstone last year, with rain on snow. Sorry I don’t recall but I’m guessing it wasn’t good… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted March 9, 2023 Share #8 Posted March 9, 2023 8 minutes ago, ChrisL said: Sorry I don’t recall but I’m guessing it wasn’t good… https://dailymontanan.com/2022/06/13/flooding-closes-yellowstone-national-park-isolates-gardiner-and-evacuates-part-of-red-lodge/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted March 9, 2023 Share #9 Posted March 9, 2023 1 hour ago, ChrisL said: An atmospheric river of warm tropical moisture is due to hit us in the coming days. The higher elevations will get more snow, the snow that fell in the lower elevations will get rained on and will likely melt. The weather heads are calling for flooding and mudflows in our mountains below 8K feet elevation. Wow. I guess when it rains it pours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted March 9, 2023 Share #10 Posted March 9, 2023 Weird Winter. We normally get 17" of snow in Jan. plus Feb. In 2010 we had more Winter snow than Juneau Alaska. In 2016, we had a 30" two-day snowstorm. Now we've less snow than Los Angeles, 0.2" for 2023: the lowest Winter total recorded in the 131 years that the official location, BWI Airport, has been measuring snow for the Baltimore Metro Area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted March 9, 2023 Author Share #11 Posted March 9, 2023 6 minutes ago, MickinMD said: Weird Winter. We normally get 17" of snow in Jan. plus Feb. In 2010 we had more Winter snow than Juneau Alaska. In 2016, we had a 30" two-day snowstorm. Now we've less snow than Los Angeles, 0.2" for 2023: the lowest Winter total recorded in the 131 years that the official location, BWI Airport, has been measuring snow for the Baltimore Metro Area. Although technically correct let’s not think that downtown LA got snow. It was the surrounding hills of LA that got a dusting and parts of LA county in the mountains got several feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted March 9, 2023 Share #12 Posted March 9, 2023 And we got nothin' A little bit of snow that stuck to grass on Christmas eve, not even covering up the green. Plenty of rain, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted March 9, 2023 Share #13 Posted March 9, 2023 We saw snow on even some of the lower mountains in our part of the valley. The only 1 I see with snow that the moment is 4 peaks. Water is flowing in the river washes, but not at levels that block the roads. I have an old high school friend who lives near Tehachapi. She said she hasn’t seen snow like this since the winter of 78 in Nebraska! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted March 9, 2023 Share #14 Posted March 9, 2023 2 hours ago, ChrisL said: Sorry I don’t recall but I’m guessing it wasn’t good… A friend of co-worker lived in that house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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