The Weather Thread

I am looking at selling my gravel bike soon, but not sure if frame only or complete build.

Depends on if I buy a complete build or a frame only to replace it.

 

Lots of chatter and news stories here in Utah this week about flooding when this record snowpack with a higher than normal water content melts off. I guess they had crazy flooding in SLC back in 1983. They are already letting water out of reservoirs here to prepare for the melt-off. Meanwhile, we've had 43" the last couple days and another 6-20" predicted before we go back home.

 

This... and the amount of snow I have been shoveling has got me in prime shape. Best shape in probably 15 years at least. Cleared all the ice dams off the valleys on the roof yesterday. Went and filled our first load of sand bags today, going back for more tomorrow. We be ready for this crazy melt off people talking about. Cache Valley is supposed to get a good amount of rain over the next week. An old local in my town that was clearing snow out of our gutters told me today to be prepared. That the last time Preston had this much snow on the gorund some kids were riding their canoes down our street. Can't wait to see how this pans out. BRING ON MORE SNOW!

 

The Great Salt Lake is F@cked, so hopefully the will help unfuckify it a little.

 

So what does 5" of rain do to ten feet of snow? I think we might find out this weekend. And it won't be good.

Mt. High only predicting around 1/2-3/4" of rain. We can live with that, although it will screw up the wonderfully soft conditions before most of us had a chance to try it.

 

We already know what can happen....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Merced_River_flood

After the warm rain fell it was melting the snowpack it was just basically water falling over all the edges down into Yosemite valley...

 

The local lake has more water running out of the overflow than I have seen since moving up here.
The creeks on my property were flowing big time yesterday, today it's at 10% of yesterdays flow.
The trails are going to be in miserable shape. I can't wait for the trail work days comming up.

 

That's not looking good for my cousin up the road a bit

 

Past 24 hour precipitation:

blue dot in upper right corner is us staying in yucca valley/j tree for a few days. Was Nice hiking weather today!

 

Rain gage at Cogswell 58+"this season. Sweet
LA river flow at Wardlow 3880 CFS. WOW
Rio Hondo at Beverly 1380 CFS WOW

 

A little bit of sun, lotsa lightning, some thunder, one bucket of hail, a touch of rain, and a whole lotta wind.
I love mountain weather, you never know what you’re gonna get.

 

Holy carp! I let a couple inches of water out of our pool and it’s already back up.

 

A slightly wetter than normal winter in SoCal and the entire country loses its collective mind. So fun!!!

 

Snow on Romero, cool

 

Where's the Ark?

Taken as I approached my house this evening.

 

Mt Ararat, of course. Didn't you read the program?

 

Not Aliso Peak?

 

You can have the boat, I’ll take the pot of gold at both ends of that

 

The second rainbow seems to be sprouting up from LC's former house when she was a featured star of Laguna Beach - the Real Orange County! So sort of a pot of gold - at least as far as property values go.

 

During one of the last storms I was leaving work driving North on 11o through Hyland Park. Saw a rainbow up ahead, kept driving and 100% saw the end of the rainbow hitting the side of the freeway / fence.

No pot of gold there... though.. only campers in the arroyo.....

 

Bad news....I forgot my rain jacket today.
Good news....it's supposed to end in 37 minutes.

 

Yeah, SLIGHTLY. Dunno where youve been hiding but we are approching 200% of normal in the Southland.

 

The water year isn't even halfway over. Check back on September 30.

 

This is the Wasatch Mtns, not So Cal, but still interesting. Utah has been pretty dry the last few years also.

Intersection of Guardsman Pass and Big Cottonwood Canyon (just below Brighton Ski Resort) in July of 2022, about 8,800 ft


Same spot on March 13, 2023.

 

WHAT?!
I have to wait that long to discuss this with you again???

 

Had a nice break in the weather yesterday. I was in the gym using an elliptical for a few minutes and realized how wonderful it looked outside. Decided I would risk it and get on the bike for a short ride. If it started raining, I could just come back.

Started a downpour when I was going 40 MPH downhill, and I was soaked in about 3 minutes, an hour from home and 45 minutes from my GF's work

Still nice to actually ride outside though.

 

Haha, slightly is definitely an understatement. While many of us aren’t badly affected it’s been brutal for a lot of people.

I’m using my buddy’s house in Mammoth next week and luckily his place is within a gated community that gets the roads and driveways cleared quickly. The property manager responded to an email that the jacuzzi won’t be accessible since they can’t throw snow up to dig a route to it in the backyard because there is currently 30 feet piled up there.

I’ll post some pictures when we get there, I expect it to look similar to this one:

 

Yesterday it rained about as hard as it is possible, not forever, but still. I've been through 2 hurricanes when I lived in the South Pacific and while not as sustained over time, much harder in volume and intensity. Living on the bottom of an atmospheric river, like a coho salmon. Jeez.

 

We are up at 3" for the storm at this time.