Jebman

58 minutes ago, aldie 22 said:

Good morning from Grand Rapids Michigan where we are having a lovely lake effect thunderstorm this morning...I can't fucking win

You  should take a trip to Mammoth Resort. They have at least 4-5 feet of new snow.

It's hard to believe it but there it is - You can see they had at least 42 inches on the Woolly Lot this morning before they plowed it and snow blew it. Damn man that is a LOT of frickin' snow!!!!! https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

Someone has got a LOT of diggin to do.

Looks to be about 24-30 inches fresh snow on the Village Level too.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village

Don't look now but 12-18 inches Thursday from yet another storm then another heavy snowstorm Sunday night into Monday night. Additional snowstorms beyond that timeframe as well.

You want snow, you know where to go.

Just now, TSSN+ said:

Jebman the voice of reason haha 

Thanks man, but I need to work on me some, lmao.

One thing I can say about these forums is that they are always amusing in one way or another. Also, there is always interesting weather somewhere in the country.

Guys, we have some nice time sensitive pics of beautiful deep snows at Mammoth. Check out these links. You should have seen the commercial type snowblowers they had to use on the accumulations on the Woolly Lot this morning, lol.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

Main Lodge is going all 8200 foot Tahoe Scope on us this morning, lol https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/main-lodge

22 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

some dude i follow on Twitter is chasing it in the area of Donner Pass - some of his videos are nuts.

https://x.com/US_Stormwatch Might be this man, Colin McCarthy. I don't pretend to know how he is getting around in this incredible blizzard but he has very good coverage.

These conditions are the worst I have seen thus far with this storm cycle at Mammoth. It is just straight-on whiteout conditions. It is heavy snow driven by winds gusting in excess of 80 mph. These are deadly jebwalk conditions, even back when I was still 23 years old. You can hardly see anything. It's been doing this all day, now into tonight as well. Tonight they expect more of the same with another 24 inches of snow accumulation on top of what they got today.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

This is not ice on the camera. This is an all-out whiteout because of 80 mph winds and very heavy snows.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/main-lodge

You can be sure that with all the snow falling on the mountains and all the extreme high winds, drifts are becoming monstrous, even outright Brobdingnagian. Cornices are forming on ridges all over and avalanche danger is pretty high. This is no time to be sneaking around going deep off piste trying to ski four foot deep pow! You can easily get caught in an avalanche or fall right into a tree well. Snow Immersion Syndrome is serious and few people ever manage to get out of a tree well by themselves. Often skiers fall in head first. Bad, very bad especially in a severe winter storm like this one.

Mammoth Resort is now CLOSED for the day, due to frigid temperatures in the low teens and winds gusting to 80 mph. It's a veritable milkshake froth out there. Very heavy snow is being whipped around, to say nothing of feet of fresh snow being picked up and blasted all over the place. Up to 26 inches expected today with much more tonight and heavy snow/high winds expected tomorrow as well.

Palisades Tahoe is also shut down for the day as well. On radar that Pacific Firehose is trained squarely at them. It's a murderous frigid conveyor belt full of crazy torrential snows, smashing the Sierra with incredible moisture and snow rates all day and tonight. Many of their webcams are iced up badly.

It's surreal at Mammoth. Up to 39 inches just since yesterday. People trying to remove snow from the deck on the Main Lodge, waist deep to nearly chest deep in new snow lol.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/main-lodge

Even the Village Level got demolished with at least 2 feet of new snow. https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village

They have 20-26 more inches coming today as a new colder storm takes aim on the Sierra.

Between the very heavy snow and that wind, its a milkshake froth out there - serious whiteout conditions at times, and often! It's COLD too, 14 degrees with 60 mph gusts brrrrrrrrrr -23 wind chiils.

2 hours ago, pazzo83 said:

why are all the kids adding "-maxxing" as a suffix?

-maxxing is a THING today. You know, Looksmaxxing, everything maxxing out. It's the Generation Z and Generation Alpha thing.

Don't forget -MOG. For example, a mogger storm is a bad storm. The blizzard in California is a mogger storm. It's badass. 

I love Gen Z terms and I love Gen Z tracks even more! Like Adele, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Leona Lewis, Playboi Carti, Kodak Black, Ken Carson, Glorilla, I think Sticky is FIRE, King Von is good, The Weeknd, man I really like The Weeknd so damn much!!!!!!!, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Evanescence, One Direction, Nelly Furtado's tracks are to DIE for!!!!, BabyCheifDoIt, Backend_Caughtem and dozens of others! I am definitely NOT your normal 62 year old Late Boomer! NO EFFIN WAY! I have a Spotify List with 493 Gen Z tracks that's FIRE!

Man, Plow Guy really needs to plow that Woolly Lot! The snow is so DEEP! Its falling hard and it is blowing around like no one's bisnass!

17 degrees heavy snow, blowing snow and winds to 60 mph is wind chills -15 to -20 at times.

BRRRRRRRRRRR. This is NO time to be out jebwalking.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

Check out the Village Level https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village

Those fences are 2 feet tall. They're goin under tonight. The chairs in the center, they might get covered up too.

This is one hell of a snowstorm at Mammoth and Tahoe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 minute ago, bncho said:

NYC forum already has a thread for the Feb 23 thing lol 

They are probably gonna get it.

Winter is NOT done with the DMV yet either.

All I can say folks, is that this is one hell of a snowy, windy as hell BEAST of a BAAAAAAAAAAD blizzard. This thing is straight outta Compton. High winds, heavy snow, hell you can't even see anything half the time from that milkshake froth!

THIS, IS NO TIME FOR A JEBWALK.

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

Mammoth will close part of their resort tomorrow Feb 17. They have already picked up 12 inches of new snow, with heavy snow now expected through Thursday. Woolly Lot already looks drastically different. Plow Guy needs to get started plowing snow in that lot! Its piling up superfast and its blowing around too! Mammoth is now 19 degrees and falling!

https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam

Snow rates are picking up at Mammoth, big aggregates temps falling thru the low 20s. Visibilities are going to heck. This is gonnabe so fun to watch the next few days. Tourists, you better shelter in place NOW! This is going to be extremely BAD for travelers.

Looks like at least 6 inches on the ground per Woolly Lot cam as of 2.08pm Pac Standard Time https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/woolly-cam Plow Man better get crackin' ! Meter's running and this puppy is just clearing its throat!

Radar shows lots Pac moisture rotating in from the ocean, right up into the Sierras. This conveyor belt is gonna BURY many communities in snow today/tonight.

1 hour ago, dailylurker said:

I know the Tahoe area gets some beast storms, Jebman. Do you know where the heaviest hourly rates on earth are recorded? There's a little town on the Tug called Copenhagen. It's on the upper Tug near Montague where I'm moving. They recorded an hourly snowfall rate of 12" per hour. When i was there in early January I experienced 6-8" per hour rates several times for extended periods of time. You can come stay with me for free. 

I just might take you up on it, its going to completely devastate my family, even more than the next 8 years are gonna do to the US and the greater planet. I'll pay for my food of course, but I am such an old man now..... One slip...

Okay folks, the Jebman Report up in here.

Where's all the snow?

It is taking its sweet time. It is  slowly starting up. The Blob is slowly inching east to Mammoth. Turns out, Normal start to ski resort operations, hell this could even be a normal, bluebird day. About one inch on the ground.

I'll get back to ya late this afternoon. I might be wiping massive brobdingnagian EGG off my face by late tonight with just sporadic flurries LMAO.

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 fashion 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.

41 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

UK maxing

 

 

Imagine the smell this summer

 

Anyone care to go swimming?

16 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Epic storm

Classic pictures

Man that was some snow job lol

11 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

(Probably strong) Nino cometh. Drought is on its last legs 

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.

2 hours ago, Jrlg1181 said:

This past 15 day run following the mega sleet storm down here was pretty dang epic (deep winter wise)  .... It could've been better with the Carolina storm just to our south... But without the sleet bomb it would have been a disappointing winter with the potential that we had...

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!