Oddities of no-winter California: Trying to guess how today's Big Storm will play out here. Supposedly an arctic storm...but it was 64F at 6:30 a.m., 14 degrees warmer than yesterday (and about 24 degrees warmer than, say, last Sunday). Big gusty winds already. Main danger most places is trees falling because ground already saturated from last week
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And, for us, I think the always-present "will we keep power?"--PG&E says they're as ready as they can be and have been trimming trees back from power lines like crazy. The problem with warm is that it might mean less snow, and while most of us don't want a lot more rain, we do want a LOT of snow. In the mountains. To stay snow until April.
- walt crawford
Of course, by Midwest/Northeast/Plains standards, none of this is anything--but it's what passes for excitement hereabouts. (If predictions pan out, the storm will yield about 3.5" rain lower altitudes, 8" higher, 3' snow in Sierras. But the topography around here is so strange that an area-wide forecast is meaningless.)
- walt crawford