Posted on 05/04/2023 2:08:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hate to burst your bubble SF, but the winter weather might be here to stay.
After two weeks of glorious sunshine and balmy temperatures, the city recorded 0.91 inches of rain over a 24-hour period, Monday into Tuesday. And our neighbors up in Tahoe saw spring snow Tuesday afternoon, heavy enough that the National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory.
Spring has sprung, no?
A man looks out over floodwaters in Watsonville on March 11, 2023. | Nic Coury/AP Photo To put these figures in perspective, the average rainfall for the entire month of May is only 0.54 inches. Parts of the North Bay, such as Mill Valley, also clocked higher-than-usual rainfall levels, marking the continuation of what has been a very wet, very windy Bay Area winter.
The city has come within inches (literally) of numerous precipitation records this year. San Francisco was doused with 5.46 inches of rain during a New Year’s Eve storm, delivering the second-highest level of single-day precipitation in city history.
And after winter atmospheric rivers battered the West Coast, massive snowpacks formed on the Sierras and other mountain ranges. As of May 1, California's snowpack sat at a whopping 254% of its typical peak, coasting well past records set in previous seasons.
There’s a chance of even more rain later this week with scattered showers across the Central Coast, according to the National Weather Service. As for any more surprise spring storms, weather experts say they're difficult to predict.
Climate scientist Daniel Swain tweeted that Tuesday’s storm was “unusually cold and fairly electric,” and that the broader conditions set up by winter storms put California on track for a particularly powerful El Niño event. Warmer-than-average surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean tend to generate higher-than-average seasonal rainfall across western North America—including California.
“It’s not just that there’s a high likelihood of El Niño conditions of some magnitude this year (which there is), but there’s also a moderate but growing likelihood of a remarkably strong event later in 2023,” Swain said in a blog post, adding that it’s likely that a greater frequency of storms will arrive in late autumn.
More snow in Tahoe and on the state’s massive snowpack might also spell bad news for low-lying regions of the Central Valley.
Though state officials say the snowpack has melted at a slower rate than expected—even with the spell of balmy spring temperatures last week—folks in Tulare County and other agriculture-heavy regions are scrambling to protect flooded crops and homes.
It’s been snowing at Big Bear Valley, California all day.
Now you know why they need to call it ‘climate change’, instead of ‘global warming’... Because when they’re wrong, they can still say ‘we told you so’ and believe it in their own feeble minds.
But aren’t the required to shut down skiing season earlier?
Look up ARk storm, then buy a boat
Weather is the least of their worries in that septic tank.
“”Climate scientist Daniel Swain””
Too bad most ‘climate scientists’ have to tow the Environazis Envirowacko line in order to receive funding.
It was warm for a little while recently, and then temperatures decreased significantly. Just so happens there is also a significant decrease in Sunspots. The Envirowackos either ignore, or dismiss, that GIANT BRIGHT SPHERE in the sky. While still incredibly hot, the Sun puts out less energy / heat / radiation when there are less Sunspots. Just research the Little Ice Age. People were ice-skating on the Thames in London.
Yep, it's the ole "heads I win, tails you lose" game.
A buddy in Arizona told me today that the Snowbowl in Flagstaff is staying open until at least May 15th. A record.
As someone who has spent their entire life living in two different counties right near the Atlantic.....childhood in Dade County, where you can swim in the ocean all year long (but gotta watch for those man o wars!)....and Queens County, where summers are just the right temperature to swim in the ocean, and still cool enough most nights to sleep with just a ceiling fan......I will never understand the appeal of SF, where the afternoon temperatures near the water are 20-30 degrees colder than inland.
It’s like London, but not as warm and sunny!
We got about 6 inches yesterday morning in Reno. Snowing in the mountains currently. Stoopid climageddon. 🌨
It’s been raining most of the day near Sacramento. Really messed up my day and my mood. Thursdays are my gardening days...
We're all relieved for you, FRiend.
I was at a night game at Candlestick in August 1989. I was colder, than I’ve been in Milwaukee, Philadelphia, or Omaha in the winter.
Raining in Reno. Snow above 7,000. Some down to Tahoe level.
Yeah, there are strong indications that the earth is cooling and this process is picking up speed.
Some locations that are untouched by NOAA tampering, like Australia, show a -.1 C cooling trend over the last decade.
>We got about 6 inches yesterday morning in Reno. Snowing in the mountains currently. Stoopid climageddon. 🌨
mid-40s at night and high 60s in the day in Charlotte and it’s been like this for a week at least. Far colder than usual. We usually are hitting 90s occasionally by now.
The weather in SF is different block by block—never seen anything like it.
It can be warm and sunny a half mile inland and cold and windy by the bay.
However, the residents are insane in every block.
Yup—”climate scientists” have all the ethics of street whores on a Friday night.
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