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NOAA’s Official October Outlook | Montana, Wyoming & Colorado Have Best Chance For Snow

September is an anxious, intense month… It’s the first full month of Fall. First snows of the year happen, the first ski resorts of the year open. The stoke for winter runs high for skiers and this year we’ve heard some non-skiers saying such blasphemous things as, “Too soon! Where did Fall go?” Mt Bachelor had a 20″ dump and opened […]

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LadyBrains | October 4, 2017
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NOAA: Much of California Sees 800% of Avg. Precipitation in July

“Here’s a look at how much precipitation fell in CA during the first 10 days of July. The map on the left is the total amount in inches and the map on the right is the percentage of normal.for the same period.” – NOAA Sacramento Large swaths of California have received 800% of normal precipitation for the first 10 days of July. We even had a Water Spout on Lake Tahoe, CA and 9,624′ Tioga Pass in Yosemite, CA was closed for 3 hours on Wednesday due to snow. The weather in California in July has been crazy so far. But it’s not nearly enough. California is still in an “Exceptional” drought. No this extra wet early July did […]

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SnowBrains | July 12, 2015
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Official NOAA El Nino Update: Strong El Nino Likely for Winter 2015/16

NOAA is saying that there is an 85% chance that the current El Nino will last into the 2015/16 North American winter. They are now also saying that they favor a “Strong” El Nino for winter 2015/16. “NOAA CPC/IRI forecasters are now very confident that the event will continue through the fall (over 90% chance) and into the winter (~85% chance).” – NOAA “…forecasters currently favor a “strong” event for the fall/early winter.” – NOAA […]

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SnowBrains | June 12, 2015
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Colorado has Wettest May on Record | Wettest in 121Years

Colorado just had its wettest May on in 121 years of record keeping. Its wettest May since 1895. It was also the wettest May in the lower 48 of the USA in 121. That above average precipitation lead to a lot of powder in the month of May in Colorado. Arapahoe Basin ski resort in Colorado got 54 inches of snow in May bringing their season snowfall now to 338″, which is 98% of their average snowfall (records go back to 1978). In the contiguous US, this May was the wettest month of any month in a 121-year record! […]

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SnowBrains | June 9, 2015
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