Rain and snow !

[Gologit]

It's raining hard here, finally, and the snow level is supposed to come down to 5000 feet tonight.

My BIL and I have a falling job that was supposed to start in January but if we get enough snow on the ground maybe we can get started sooner. We can't skid unless there's at least 18" of snow...ecologically fragile terrain, erosion issues, all that stuff.

But man, is it good to finally see some rain and snow! All of our local resevoirs are at minimum capacity and maybe now we won't have to worry about a drought next year.

 

[forestryworks]

good to hear

we won't see snow for another month or two... if it even snows at all

post some pics of the snow if you get the chance
but mostly, we want pics of the falling job if it goes through

 

[Dok]

My weekend was rained out, stayed in the garage all weekend puttering around. Didn't mind it a bit! We got 5"+ and more coming tonight and the land is still soaking it up. Not much runoff at all. Not much snow in the mountains until tonight, hope more is coming.

Good luck on the 18" of snowpack, hopefully we will have a good winter.
Dok

 

[Gologit]

My weekend was rained out, stayed in the garage all weekend puttering around. Didn't mind it a bit! We got 5"+ and more coming tonight and the land is still soaking it up. Not much runoff at all. Not much snow in the mountains until tonight, hope more is coming.

Good luck on the 18" of snowpack, hopefully we will have a good winter.
Dok

I hope you're right, we need all the wet stuff we can get . Lake Oroville and Bullards Bar are lower than I've seen them in a long time.

 

[Dok]

Same with Jenkinson (Sly Park Lake), you don't realize how tall those dams are until the water is this low.
Dok

 

[Jacob J.]

Same with Jenkinson (Sly Park Lake), you don't realize how tall those dams are until the water is this low.
Dok

Did you guys not get a whole lot of snow and rain last winter? We got more snow here (coastal Oregon) last winter than we did in the previous seven winters.

 

[mile9socounty]

Did you guys not get a whole lot of snow and rain last winter? We got more snow here (coastal Oregon) last winter than we did in the previous seven winters.

Boy howdy did we get a lot of snow last winter. Made tree planting really difficult and drawn out. Also shut down our thinning projects. Was sure fun to go out and play in though.

 

[slowp]

The fog cleared long enough to show white up on the peaks around here. It is supposed to drop, and they mentioned heavy rain and wind later in the week. In other words, it is November. I better get Twinkle sharpened up!

 

[forestryworks]

anyone else agree that november came awful fast this year?

 

[Gologit]

anyone else agree that november came awful fast this year?

Yup...one day we were having a beautiful indian summer...the next day winter slammed in.

 

[A. Stanton]

Go, invest in some rain barrels and you can put that rain water to good use. That's if it doesn't get below 32.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Yesterday morning was 60 degrees at 4 am today 40 at same time. 6-10" predicted above 2500 ft tonight.

 

[Gologit]

Did you guys not get a whole lot of snow and rain last winter? We got more snow here (coastal Oregon) last winter than we did in the previous seven winters.

No, winter didn't amount to much last year....at least in the part of the Sierras I spend the most time in. Unless we get a real good snowpack there are likely to be water cutbacks next summer.

 

[slowp]

Summer was short. I was actually stuck in the snow in July. But digging out when it is 70 degrees is much more pleasant than when it is 20 degrees. The flood announcement has changed to probably not.

 

[Gologit]

Summer was short. I was actually stuck in the snow in July. But digging out when it is 70 degrees is much more pleasant than when it is 20 degrees. The flood announcement has changed to probably not.

Might still be a good idea to make an outboard motor out of your weed-whacker, though.

 

[Bushler]

We're getting hammered. Thunderstorm as I type. Rain predicted through the forecast period.

Oct. went out like a lamb, and Nov. came in like a lion.

 

[ak4195]

working on the tan....

Much like last winter here,brilliant sunny most days,course it rarely gets above 25 degs during the day.Just enough snow here in the valley to insulate the ground some from deep frost.
Jet stream has swung way south which is why the PNW gets the storms that could have buried us in snow.

ak

 

[mile9socounty]

Well from what our thinning crew said. There's about a foot of snow up by Whiskey Camp. Couldn't get to the job site in the vans.

 

[slowp]

When I left the sale where the sun only shines for 10 minutes on a clear day, the temp was dropping and the snow getting smaller and sticking. It was a fine and miserable day. Wind, rain, snow, sun etc.

 

[slowp]

The TV said we have a flood watch for our county. It is dark, but not much rain and the grapple cats were not rutting things yet. I checked them this morning.