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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Back in the swing of things
Glacier National Park8/19/08 10:00am
Sitting down at the computer getting back into the realm of Tahoe after a two plus week trip to Utopia isn't all that hard. It isn't like we are on vacation from Connecticut or something and have to go back to the daily grind. I enjoy the daily grind in Tahoe, can't get better. My awsome wife and I drove over 3100 miles to see the magnificent sights the great American West has to offer. Our trip started off in Brighton, UT where my mother-n-law just broke ground on a new house at the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon, right across the street from Solitude. Next winter is going to be filled with Utah blower! From there we ventured to Jackson Hole, WY for a day of hiking in Grand Teton National Park. Next stop was Yellowstone for a few days of mother natures best. Yellowstone is incredible, with hundreds of bubbling mud pits, scorching hot pools, and geysers. When that isn't enough, then there is the wildlife which makes you feel like you are in a Jurassic Park like setting. Bears, deer, elk, moose and bison roaming free on the range, just doesn't feel like anywhere else in the US. After Jellystone, we were set for the grand finaly, Glacier National Park. I have always wanted to see Glacier, and I was not disappointed. Glacier is a place where you can see climate change in action. To stand at the base of huge mountains, carved by the ages of glaciers and see nothing. You turn to the sign which has a picture of the exact same landscape you are looking at back in 1910-1930, all you see is a snow covered landscape, and now you see hundreds of feet of rock cliffs with a huge waterfall pouring off a snow covered ledge, you know climate change is real. It is amazing what has happened to Glacier in the last 50 years. In 1910 when the park opened, there were over 150 known glaciers. The definition of glacier is a snow and ice at least 25 acres in size, at least 100 feet thick, and moving. Today, there are around 25, and of those, most are barely reaching the criteria. All glaciers in Glacier National Park are expected to melt by 2020. So that leaves 12 years. Better go now. www.nps.gov/glac I recommend you make the drive to GNP. You will enjoy.
So getting back into the swing here in Tahoe, we are blessed with a little cooler weather for the next day or so. An upper level trough has moved onshore and an associated shortwave is giving us our clouds and cooler temps today and Wednesday. Increased moisture at the mid and upper levels is not supported by lower level lift so showers are out of the question. Dry and breezy conditions for today, warmer and less breezy Wed/Thurs and by Friday the high pressure ridge builds back into the Great Basin and Eastern California from the 4corners region.
For Today- a lake wind advisory for Lake Tahoe, partly cloudy with highs 67-77, winds SW10-20 mph, G35mph, ridges to 65mph.
Wednesday- sunny, highs 72-82, light winds
Thurs/ Friday/ Weekend- sunny w/ temps upper 70's to low 80's
Current NWS Lake Tahoe Forecast click here
Lake Tahoe Recreational Forecast here
CURRENT CONDITIONS:
Truckee
Tahoe City
Reno
Local Mountain Remote Data
Surface Observations
Wind Chill Chart
NASA/JPL-UCD buoys
FORECAST LINKS:
National Weather Service Reno
WSFO Reno Discussion
Lake Tahoe Backcountry Forecast
RADAR:
PAC NW Radar
PAC SW Radar
SATELLITE IMAGERY:
4km IR Loop
16km IR Loop
Central CA 1km Visible
GOES-W 12hr WV
GOES 24hr NA WV
Precipitable Water Loop
Past Week's Estimated Precip
SNOWPACK INFORMATION:
Sierra Avalanche Center
Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center
California Department of Water Resources
SNOTEL Data
NOAA NOHRSC Interactive Snow Information
NWS Snowpack Analyses
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// posted by PortersWeatherGuy @ 10:00 AM
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