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Giving thanks for snowfall

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 19, 2009 at 8:08 am

From Tom Stienstra at the San Francisco Chronicle:

“With a wary look to the sky and then another to the Weather Channel, skiers, boarders and resort operators are relishing the likely chance that a series of storms will allow ski parks to open for Thanksgiving weekend. At Tahoe, five resorts are projecting opening in the next week with limited terrain available.

“I would definitely say the ski season will be open for the Thanksgiving holidays,” said Bay Area meteorologist Mike Pechner.

Everybody wonders whether this will be the third consecutive subpar snow year or the winter that everybody gets right? The consensus among forecasters is that precipitation in Northern California will at least be average this winter and more likely above average.

Meteorologist Mike Polansky found what might be a correlation between heavy rains in October and high annual rainfall. Since 1848, San Francisco has had more than 3 inches of rain in October nine times, including this year. Of the previous eight, six became very wet winters, one was normal, and one was below normal. In the past 40 years, wet Octobers occurred in 1972, 1982 and 2004, and each time a very wet winter followed. … “

November 19, 2009 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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