Posted on 05/07/2024 10:00:06 AM PDT by george76
A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.
The wet weather system had mostly moved out of the state by Sunday morning, but officials warned that roads would remain slick after around two feet (60 centimeters) of snow fell in some areas of the Sierra.
“Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?” the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab asked on the social platform X.
The 26.4 inches (67 centimeters) of snowfall on Sunday beat the second snowiest day of the season — March 3rd — by 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters), according to the lab.
Treacherous driving conditions on Saturday forced the closure of several highways near Lake Tahoe, including Interstate 80 over the Donner Summit.
Flood advisories were issued for parts of the Bay Area, where up to an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain fell while temperatures dipped into the low 40s (around 5 degrees Celsius), the National Weather Service said. Wind gusts reaching 40 mph (64 kph) were reported Saturday near San Francisco.
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Between that and breaking your leg from the deep snow to sliding off a cliff if you stumble the least little bit, it the high sierras it is dangerous to hike thru that in a high snow year like last year and this year.
Liberals: “Global warming derp derp derp...Global...derp...warming...derp”
He got off trail ... if he’d stayed on trail, he still would have died ... headed for a section where he needed an ice axe & crampons to get through it & he had neither & he would not have turned back. That ice/steep section was the first SAR checked, just ‘knew’ that’s where they’d find him, at the bottom of a cliff off of that trail section, but he wasn’t there.
Most of the people I’m following this year about maybe 350-400 miles into the hike, they will be getting to Kennedy Meadows and the High Sierras by the first week in June, even in the middle of summer at those altitudes, the snow will be treacherous at best and downright dangerous for your average hiker who isn’t prepared to hike in the snow.
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