Winter is Coming! Don’t Let Cold Hands Slow You Down As the temperature drops and the snowflakes start to dance in the air, we know that winter is just around the corner. It’s the season filled with excitement for skiing, snowboarding, winter hiking, and all kinds of chilly escapades. But nothing can put a damper on your winter fun quite like cold, numb hands. Fear not, because we’ve got the […] Featured Article Alex K | October 23, 2023 0 Comments
How to Keep Your Hands and Feet Warm While Skiing and Snowboarding One of the most uncomfortable feelings while skiing or snowboarding is having cold extremities. If they get too cold, it can be downright painful, not to mention diminish your on-snow performance. They say there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear. That may be true, but here are also some other ways to ensure your phalanges stay […] Brains Brent Thomas | September 6, 2022 0 Comments
Conditions Report: Sunshine & Enjoyable Snow At Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, CA **Report from Sunday, January 27, 2019** The last snowfall at Alpine Meadows, CA was almost a week earlier than our day up, (Monday, January 21st with 16″ 24-hour snowfall at 8,000′ elev. and 204″ cumulative), but it was still a great day of skiing. Although there wasn’t much for powder and there were some small sections of icy, chunky snow- the […] Conditions Report Sydney Stephens | January 31, 2019 1 Comment
NOAA Report: The Last 400 Months In a Row on Earth Have Been Warmer Than Average If you somehow think climate change is a hoax, here’s some more science to chew on. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its global climate report for the month of April, which was the third warmest April since records started in 1880. A separate report from NASA came to the same conclusion. More importantly, it marks the 400th consecutive […] Weather Mike Lavery | May 24, 2018 0 Comments
Yosemite National Park – “We’re Having Another Very Dry Year” Yosemite National Park yesterday declared: We’re having another very dry year. The February 1 snow survey results are in, and the Merced River drainage snowpack is 16% of average and the Tuolumne River drainage is 25% of average (this is similar to February 2014 and 2015). So warm and dry in fact, that the bears are awake and hungry! Nevertheless, the winter […] Weather Steven Agar | February 8, 2018 0 Comments
NOAA: Warm & Dry Conditions To Return to West Coast & Possibly Stay Into Mid-February NOAA is forecasting high pressure to build onto the West Coast next week and stay there for the foreseeable future. NOAA is forecasting the possibility of drier and warmer than average conditions in CA, UT, NV, AZ, NM through February 16th, 2018 along with wetter and colder conditions in WA, OR, MT, ID, WY during the same time frame. High Pressure […] Weather WeatherBrains | January 24, 2018 0 Comments
NOAA: 2017 Arctic Report Card | Extreme Fall Warmth Drove Near-Record Annual Temperatures NOAA: Extreme Fall Warmth Drove Near-Record Annual Temperatures By: Rebecca Lindsey Spring and summer temperatures in the Arctic were cooler in 2017 than they have been in many years this decade, but the annual average surface temperature was still the second highest on record according to the annual issue of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card. This map shows temperature from October 2016-September 2017 […] Weather Guest Author | December 20, 2017 1 Comment
“Watermelon Snow” Is Accelerating The Speed At Which Glaciers Melt According to a study published in Nature Communications, there are certain species of green algae that thrive in snow, that actually take on a red hue, as does the snow they’re residing in. As they take over the snow, they reduce the reflectivity or “albedo” of the snow or ice, which accelerates the rate at which they melt. This is horrible […] Industry News Chris Wallner | June 27, 2016 0 Comments
May 2016 Shatters Global Temperature Records For The Eighth Month In A Row According to NASA, May 2016 is the hottest May on record, making it the eighth month in a row to break the monthly temperature record. Despite one of the strongest El Niños ever recorded finally on the decline, the planet continues to warm at an alarming rate. The latest figures that were released by NASA now make it even more certain that […] Weather Chris Wallner | June 24, 2016 1 Comment
NOAA: 2016 Summer Outlook Shows Above Average Temperatures For Much Of The United States According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, the summer of 2016 is shaping up to be a warm one for the majority of the United States. Colored areas on the map above show which parts of the country have the highest odds (darkest red) for well above average warmth for the June-August period. For the seasonal forecasts, “well above average” means temperatures […] Weather Chris Wallner | May 31, 2016 0 Comments
April 2016 Was The HOTTEST April On Record | 2016 Back On Track For The Hottest Year On Record According to NASA, April was the hottest April on record, being 1.11°C (1.99°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 average that they use to measure it against. April was the seventh month in a row to shatter the monthly temperature record, which raises concerns about the rapid warming of the planet. Last month was not only the hottest April on record, but […] Industry News Chris Wallner | May 17, 2016 0 Comments
Despite Dry February, Lake Tahoe is Rising! | Only 9″ Below It’s Natural Rim The good news: Tahoe is only 9.2″ below the natural rim (it was 11″ below the natural rim on Feb. 1st) The bad news: Average for this time of year is 28″ above the natural rim More good news: a big pattern change is currently forecast for Tahoe with lots and lots of snow and rain forecast this month… Thanks […] Industry News Keenan Grady | March 1, 2016 1 Comment
NOAA: El Nino Has Killed “The Blob” and the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” According to Earth Observatory, an unusually strong and persistent ridge of atmospheric high pressure emerged in the northeastern Pacific Ocean in 2013/14 – they named it the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” (RRR). This unusual ridge shutdown winds which stopped ocean upwelling, so no deep, cool water up came to the surface, which led to unusually warm surface water in that area of the […] Weather Chris Wallner | February 18, 2016 1 Comment
NASA Video: How Cold Was it This Winter in North America? Even out on the West Coast we all heard about how cold it was this winter? For West Coasters suffering a lackluster early season that was hard. Alabama was getting snow, but the mountains of the West weren’t?! The video pulls hourly surface temperatures from across North America. What is especially interesting about this video is that you can watch weather patterns, storms spinning down towards the lower 48 and, how warm it was on the West Coast. Even with all the media hype and coverage of snowstorms in the East this winter ranks as the 34th coldest in the past 119 years (since record keeping began.) The winter […] Weather SnowBrains | March 13, 2014 0 Comments