atmospheric river enjoyer located in the sierra nevada. skier, runner, hiker, climber, etc. SPS peaks: 74/247
weather amateur, machine learning professional
All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.
@michael_k_woods by the way, even in the "big winter" of 22-23, only one cat 5 AR landfalled in california, way up on the CA/OR border. wet signal does not mean cat 5 ARs, and it does not mean horrendous flooding.
@michael_k_woods CFS missed on the entire southern half of the United States, but yeah, fair point about the higher res product. My issue is that posting CFS at a 7 month lead talking about flood impacts is horribly misleading hype content. That model is no more accurate than a coin toss
Some stats from our historical March snowpack loss. Analysis conducted on 50 years of data across 39 stations in the Eastern and Southern Sierra. Breakdown here:
https://t.co/uVpu0fAB6D
I present an analysis of the snowpack loss over the month of March in the Eastern / Southern Sierra. This analysis finds the worst ever decline in snowpack for the month of March, with an average loss of 8.9" of SWE across 39 stations.
Read more here: https://t.co/uVpu0fAB6D