May 20, 2016

    Snow below the tree line Thursday May 19, 2016. A trace recorded at 1550 meters.

    Snow in the alpine pretty much all day, with a few breaks. HI of +3 at 16:30 Hrs at 1860 meters.

   Visibility was variable at times, there were some periods of good visibility.

    Rendevous Deck Thursday at noon.

    Wet snow later in the afternoon.

    Breaks by 17:00 Hours in the valley.


Weather Observations for May 20, 2016: taken at 06:00 Hours.

2240 meters     -3, Winds were 20-40 KPH SSE --Horstman Hut
1860 meters     -1, Winds were 20-25 KPH NNE --Rendevous
1550 meters    +1, 0 cm of new snow, 0 cm in 24 hrs, 120 cm Base, RH 98%--Catskinner

  660 meters    +7, Valley Temp, Max Temp Yesterday was +10.2. 3.5 mm of Precip recorded yest

    At 07:00 Hours we had obscured skies and limited visibility.

    By 08:00 Hrs we have broken cloud and variable visibility.



For the forecast, air mass will dry out today with unsettled conditions in a Northeasterly flow. There is a chance of some very light intermittent showers this am with the FL hovering in the 2300 meter range by this afternoon. Good chance of some sunny breaks in the mix.  By Saturday the low to the Southeast will send more cloud our way by the afternoon with some light rain showers. The overcast wet conditions will move into Sunday with light precipitation and overcast conditions, likely the wettest day of the weekend.  Unfortunately,  Monday is also looking overcast with some showers as the low continues to spin cloud and moisture our way. Long range models are in disagreement past Sunday but it looks like the upper trough will continue to bring seasonable temperatures and typical May showers for next week.

    Low is over Southern Oregon/Northern California. Will continue to send spring like weather!!

    Low will be spinning clouds at us for a few days.

    Unsettled with some breaks as the morning progresses.

    Today is looking like a fairly nice day.

    Northeasterly flow for today.

    Unsettled Saturday morning as well with more cloud later in the day.

    Looking overcast and wet for Sunday as well.

    Looking into early next week. Moist!!

    Low shifts to the east but continues to send spring like conditions our way.


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    07:30 Hours Thursday morning.

    14:30 Hours on Thursday.

    Big picture Thursday afternoon.

    Snow in the alpine was skiing well before the FL went up and made it wet.

    Downloading on the solar, from white to--

    Green on the Wizard.