Thanks to Alert Underground Reader [Name Redacted], we can bring you the West’s bad snow news in graphic form (now there’s an improvement):
Not the best news for next year's trout water...
As he said, “Red is dire, Fuschia is worse.” And you’ll notice it’s Fuschia in Northern California.
Yet it’ early; last year’s March snows are what put us into record-breaking territory.
And to be clear, a drought would hammer the rest of the state more than the Upper Sacramento and McCloud, which do OK in drought years.
A drought is harder on some of the small streams, some of which suffered badly under the three-year drought, but are enjoying boosted fish populations after two above-average years.
Even the long-range forecast doesn’t show much happening in my neck of the woods (for fly fishermen, this is real barn burner stuff). We’ll stand by with any breaking precipatory news…
See you on the weather geek sites, Tom Chandler.
boy, dry as Frog’s Fanny down in So. Cal. too, today pushing 80, skin itchy. Saw snow pack measuring team on news last night — searching in High Sierra for anything to jam pole into. Finally located a patch.
Hope pressure dome breaks, somehow pattern shifts. Is this what it feels like to be an Anazasi corn farmer?
DarrellKuni(Quote)
Standing by . . . in Northern Cali-fuschia.
Justin Camp(Quote)
You’re right about the pattern. Two years ago we got hammered in March and April. It really upset my carefully laid backpacking/small stream fishing plans. It could happen again.
Smart and Better Looking Brother(Quote)
Looks like some of my favorite areas are in red or fuschia in northeastern CA, southern and eastern OR, and northeastern NV. Bad news for the native trout in these areas.
Salvage(Quote)