Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Can You Believe It?

Sierra picked up another 3 inches overnight as we are just beginning this next 4 day storm cycle that is prepared to bring us several more feet of snow.

Front is pushing towards Sacramento this morning. As it pushes closer towards us today it will increase the snow intensity with the heaviest snow this afternoon as it pushes across the area. Snow showers will continue tonight into Thursday morning. No change in the snow totals by Thursday morning of 10-15 inches at the base & 15-20+ inches on top.

Next storm ready to dive in tomorrow afternoon and this storm is stronger than this first one. The models may even be a little low on the snow totals. Snow will last through the day on Friday and some snow showers even into Friday night with the moist flow off the Pacific. By Saturday morning expecting another 1.5-2 feet at the base and 2-3+ feet on top.

Next storm still looking good to move in on Saturday and last into Saturday night. There really won't be a break in the snow today through Saturday. By Sunday morning expecting up to another foot+ at the base and 1-2+ feet on top. By Sunday our 4 day totals should be around 3-4+ feet at the base and 4-6+ feet on top.

We will end up with 9 day totals around 7-8 feet at the base and 11-13 feet on top. That is an amazing amount of snow in a a little over a week and Sierra will be closing at the end of April with a huge base.

A bit of a break next week with just some brush-by systems to our North. BA

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