Hmm, not much snow just yet, but hang on... hear that distant beeping sound? That's La Niña, slowly backing up to the Tahoe basin, to dump a huge load of snow on us. The problem is the bothersome high-pressure system sitting over the Pacific, keeping those arctic-circle storm systems from making it all the way down the Pacific jet stream to the Tahoe area. All that lovely precipitation is being wasted as rain in the Pacific Northwest.
And secondly, my local pessimist reminds me, it is "only" a La Niña year, not an El Niño. So there won't be as much snow as last year-- that was an exceptional year for Tahoe. But there will be more snow than usual, and Tahoe's "usual" is pretty exceptional by any normal alpine standard.
So on your way to Tahoe this Christmas, enjoy the clear highways and the sunny chilly weather. Soon enough the snow will come. That distant haunting beeping sound is happy powder days backing slowly down the jet stream...
No comments:
Post a Comment