Jebman

The Big California Blizzard of 2026 is taking its sweet time getting to the Sierran Resorts this morning but it's still on track. Light snow has started at Mammoth and steady driving snows are accumulating at Palisades Tahoe Resort farther north. The 8200 foot Scope at Tahoe shows high winds blowing a drift on the Scope Platform. As the day wears on temperatures will remain in the low 20s along with strong winds gusting to 60 mph, well over 100 mph at the ridges. Snow will continue and become very heavy with rates increasing to 2-3 inches per hour. Massive amounts of Pacific moisture will be hurled against the Cordillera and forced 11000 feet into the atmosphere resulting in torrential snows that will train for hours and hours and hours. Snow will rapidly pile up and strong 50 to 60 mph winds will blow the snow all over the place, at times resembling a milkshake froth with near zero forward visibility and serious whiteouts that will make it quite possible for travelers to get lost in and then easily freeze to death in very similar to Luke Skywalker on Hoth. Huge brobdingnagian cornices will form on numerous ridges greatly increasing avalanche dangers throughout the Sierras for the next 4 days. I expect both Tahoe and Mammoth will be shut down out of an abundance of caution probably by Tuesday as ridiculous snow rates continue to pile up. Radar shows a huge blob of yellow slamming hard directly against the Sierras. This blob is just undulating and constantly being resupplied by more moisture off the Pacific storm system. The entire region is in for a tremendously overwhelming amount of snow; some communities are forecast to see possibly as much as EIGHT FEET of new snow by early Friday. This is no time to be anywhere in the disaster region. Palisades Tahoe Live Webcams: https://www.palisadestahoe.com/mountain-information/webcams#tab=palisades Mammoth Resort Woolly Lot Cam: https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam Mammoth Resort Main Lodge Cam https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/main-lodge They are not using the big lights at the Main Lodge any more but they have enough lights near the building to see the snow coming down.

Anyone care to go swimming?

Man that was some snow job lol

I hope its a super nino. Texas is parched. We need about 50 inches of rain and a Harvey over Austin for 5 weeks.

Sierran storm still on track. Snow will begin early Mon morning about 2am Pac Standard Time. It will ramp up and strong winds will create whiteouts. The day by day snow forecasts are wild. Just feet upon feet right thru Thursday. There are warnings for snow all the way south to the Bernardinos and then clear up to west central Oregon. This storm is gonnabe HUGE and super frigid, extremely low snow levels. Some places high up will exceed 8 feet of new snow by Thursday. Don't be a tourist caught out in this. There will be no rescue for days and very low temps, extreme deep snow and blowing drifting snow from torrential snow and blowing masses of snow from off the ground by winds easily exceeding 50-60mph. Shasta already getting snow from this: https://www.skipark.com/winter/mountain-cams About 6 inches, they are progged to get 6-8 feet.

The trend is toward higher amounts of pure water in the Sierra Sun night thru Thursday. More communities are expected to receive the snow equivalent of ten inches of pure water with about 12 to 1 snow to water ratios, but those ratios could be 14 to 1. Though its true that high winds will knock the accums down some, that's still a fairly Brobdingnagian amount of snow. The specter of eight feet of snow from this is looming for many more Sierran communities. It's going to be a fun storm to watch on webcam, especially during the day. Not so much if you happen to be a tourista caught out in this in a car in high winds and milkshake-like froth visibilities, in single digit cold with wind chills down to negative 40 degrees at times and crazy snow rates.

That is just what I wanted for the sub: Deep sleet/snowpack into a deep glacier then the Bombcyclone dumping about 16 inches of fresh snow on top of the greenland-like glacier. It would have taken weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks to melt. It would have been EPIC!

Things are improving for the Sierras for the Sunday night thru Thursday storm cycle. Models now printing out at least 8 to 9 inches of pure water for much of the Sierran Cordillera. There are some areas of near 10 inches of the water. Snow to water ratios will start out at 8 to 11 to 1, then improve to 13 to 16 to 1 when the colder air gets in. You do the math. This is a very serious storm brewing, even for the Sierra. It's conceivable that quite a few Sierran communities will end up with seven or eight FEET of fresh snow by Thursday. This enormous snowpack will be blown around by very strong winds. This could be a particularly dangerous situation for travelers beginning Monday morning when snow rates will explode. People trying to walk to shelter in these conditions will be confronted by prohibitively deep snow and whiteout conditions caused by tremendous snow rates plus high winds and epic masses of blowing snow. This is no time to be trying to enjoy a holiday in the Sierran ski resorts. Mt Bachelor in Oregon is already beginning to see snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9f7hsdlJg

Shasta County in northern California will see snow accumulations from 4 to 8 FEET. Mammoth will only get glanced by this, they will see totally manageable accumulations from 2 to maybe 4 feet. I wish Shasta had cameras. It would be amusing to watch 8 feet of snow pile up. Shasta turns out to have a live cam https://www.skipark.com/winter/mountain-cams Question is does it have lights at night you can see the dendrites fall by? Because if so I just might end up liking Shasta better then Mammoth. Couple feet of snow on a western resort is so pedestrian.

The storm that will devastate the Sierra with high winds and brobdingnagian amounts of snow Sunday night thru Thursday next week, ORIGINATES FROM ALASKA. It will be a frigid storm laden to the gills with enormous amounts of Pacific moisture. It will smash into all the California mountains and be forced violently upward condensing into ridiculous quantities of torrential snow that will simply pile up, feet and feet maybe meters. High winds will pile up drifts and cornices at ridges that will result in severe avalanche dangers. In short, this is not the weekend to go skiing along the Sierras. Travel will be impossible. This storm is so cold that it will snow on the valley floors. Every mountain in California including the coastal ranges will be utterly demolished with snow. New records will be set. Models are depicting up to 7 inches of pure water. Snow to water ratios will increase to 14 to 1. This is going to be BAD. THIS STORM WILL TAKE NO PRISONERS. This storm is only the first in a classic Pacific Set.

It was probably ALL of them, lol.

You guys think my post is over the top. Thats fine. But what I mentioned, isn't even one billionth of what is ACTUALLY gonna transpire. By the time this is over with, the entire Sierran landscape will in effect, be The New Greenland. Three times what the models are saying just with this first storm starting Monday morning over the Sierra, may turn out to be extremely conservative. They will have to shut Mammoth Resort down for 7 days just to do avalanche mitigation work, and those conditions will be possibly the very WORST ever since they started building western ski resorts! The western ski resorts' snowstorms got delayed but not denied. Because of the incredible hyper intensity of these incoming storms, the severe season will begin rather early. The warm side of these storms will mean serious, serious bisnass! Get ready to track! https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/meteorologist-says-get-ready-because-a-winter-storm-train-is-coming/ar-AA1WdzmJ

Sure. It's really good medicine.

Yep. MK Ultra's more like it. Totally fragmented personality, now. I'm gonnabe really useful later...

This is for Feb 28? In south central TX I can already attest to delightfully mild weather on Feb 12! 84 degrees with dews already in the low 60s! We are all dancing around with joy down here! I want to SCREAM THIS FROM THE HOUSETOPS, UNTIL I AM HOARSE! SPRING IS COMING ON SUPER EARLY! We are boisterously CHEERING LA NINA on with ENTHUSIASM!