This is typical of California Weather. We go through major droughts then we get major winters. This is exactly why people have been yelling at the Governor to increase storage throughout the State. This will all go to waste because they will have to release a lot of water prior to snow melt in spring.
They have had several opportunities to increase the acre feet capacity of all its reservoirs when water was way down, but each time have failed to do so.
I'm 75 years old. When I was a kid growing up, early 50s to mid-60s, I lived on a farm east of an Iowa metro area. We had hills (great sledding in winter, running around summer), hills with timber (more chasing around winter/summer), and a good-sized pond (swimming and ice skating). We always had 90s in the summer (100s probably, I was a kid, and didn't pay attention), and there was that frozen-over pond in the winter (-10/-20F winters). Ice skating/sledding time. Anyway, I don't recall ever hearing the terms "wind chill" or "heat index." I also don't remember some sweet young thing on the weather forecast telling me when I needed a stocking cap & gloves or when to get a fan and stay hydrated. As memory allows, it seems my mother and father were quite capable of getting that message across. And by the way, they did very well providing the necessary clothing for us to go out and participate in those mental and physical activities. No Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat for us. Nope, when it came time for formal sports in school, we were already in shape from the activities we thought up at home. Different time, different place. Great memories.
I see a UPS truck in the picture at the 1:00 mark. No matter how hot, cold, rainy, snowy, or windy it is, i'll always see a UPS driver out there wearing a pair of shorts and driving with the doors open.
That’s 95 ft of snow! We’re at 52 ft plus whatever this storm and every other one comes before the season ends. We might come close. Who knows? It’s been a crazy season of moisture.
Entire Cali Central Valley becomes a massive lake for months at a time about every 160 yrs from train of atmospheric rivers. Last time was 1862 and permanently altered Sacramento. This doesn't come close to that. Establishment media provides endless drama and history denial.
Extreme droughts seem to have extreme endings. I just hope CA can stay out of a drought now. Just average rain and snowfall from now on. No more severe disasters.
Sure was! I was in New Mexico and those storms that rolled thru southern California and moved inland thru the southwest still packing a lot of rain and snow.
I was curious also so I looked it up. Total recorded human history about 5k years. California weather history started 1847. Total missing human history is about 300,000 years. 🧠 🍄 ☁️ !
As usual, the news people can't get it right. Maybe the ""Southern Sierra" has a darn deep snowpack I'm sure but to call it "Largest Snowpack in Recorded History" I think is incorrect. Weather records in the Sierra began in1870 with completion of the first through railroad. The greatest annual snowfall ever recorded in the Sierra was at Tamerack, Alpine county (8000 feet)-73 1/2 feet during the winter 1906- 1907. This according to the handbook, "Sierra Nevada Natural History" University of California Press, Berkely, CA 8th printing 1974.
"Largest snowpack in recorded history" sounds good and grabs our attention, which is what the writer wanted to do. Accuracy of the reported information takes a back seat.
Snow does not accumulate evenly everywhere, but the relay station near Relay Peak (overlooking Lake Tahoe) has about 5’ less than it did in winter 2017-18.
When I check the actual weather history in the Sierra's,, this weather is not record braking. It is impressive. (1951-1952 2.348 over 198 feet......2010-2011 1.857 over 154 feet) For this 2022-2023 season it's reported more than 48 feet or 576 in of snow so far this season.
200 feet of snowfall? that doesn't sound right. In any case, I can see California Department of Water Resources mention that it is the record year for the southern sierra (with 81/82 being the #2 year) but not sure how far back that series of measurements go (maybe not harmonized to 51/52 data)
Yeah and in 1951 we still had Massive Lakes in the central Valley that sometimes helped Create Lake Effect snow. You say 576" but Mammoth Mountain at 9k feet says 700"+ inches at the Summit. They have 600" at lodge which in 2010 saw 668" so pretty damn close with the season pretty far from over as it's been snowing all day there.
@@budd1814 Dude... proper grammar and spelling is the difference between "knowing your shit" and "knowing you're shit". Besides, if we continue to dumb down America we'll get more and more idiot trump supporters to destroy our nation. So, yea, do better.
It will all go there but the problem is the reservoirs are close to full which means they will have to drain now to make room. As I have mentioned, this is why people have been jumping up and down for more storage. We knew this was coming. This is typical of California weather.
A lot of the snowmelt ends up in the reservoirs and aqueducts. And a lot of that water is allocated for crop irrigation. If California didn't grow crops, there would be a major problem in the U.S. food chain. Most of the water that ends up flowing to the Pacific Ocean, especially in So Cal, comes from cities and municipal areas where the water runs down street gutters, off of roofs, etc. It's not the cleanest water when you consider where it came from.
I saw a chart looked like 1950 had most . Maybe I saw it wrong . Now we know why the native people didn't winter or venture into the mountains in winter time .
I think it relates to water amount, some snows are drier, may be deeper but the water content isn't there. Sounds like this snow has a lot of frozen water
@@boblatkey7160 Back when I was in school during the 60s that was what the schools were saying the great ice age is coming then it became global warming now climate change. Don't worry the climate alarmist will be back to the big Ice Age soon enough.
In Mammoth at the summit they are pushing 700"+ and at the Lodge they are sitting around 600" so 50' with 24-32" of snow supposed to hit in next day or two.
It's not 50' thick tho. It's 20-25 and less in other spots. It gets compacted over time with the weight. I was just there last week. The wind up top was probably 80mph when it was open.
@@Jc-ms5vv Its called weather, it changes all the time. How did the last 3 ice ages end??? If you look at the science the world temperature is much cooler than the past. Yes its going up a bit right now. Some of that is the temp sensors are in urban environments and urban heat island is a real thing. If you would spend the time and look at the ice core samples you would understand the truth. Please do your research. Weather has changed on this plant so so many times its nuts. If nothing else, please explain how did we have anything to do with coming out of not one or two but multiple ice ages.
@@gbro8822 yeah we’re pumping c02 into the atmosphere ten times faster then the petm extinction event. You should do some actual research on abrupt cc. Compare previous mass extinctions to the rate of this one.
I'm so glad we are receiving so much rain and snow this year. I have always been very interested in our water here in the west. I love knowing how it flows from high in the Rockys where the Colorado River begins, where it flows from there through the natural passes of The upper basin, into Glen Canyon, Lake Powell out of the Glen Canyon Dam, to the Grand Canyon and then eventually down to Lake Mead created by the mighty Hoover Dam. In the Sierras, where it flows down both the western and eastern slopes then out to the sea. I have always wanted to know the path it takes as it flows back to the Pacific. We hear about this has been the highest snowpack in recorded history and the record snowpacks of the past. Like the 82, 83 record, and the ones of the early 2000s. As a skier, it always means a long season. As a kid in the 60s, my family would vacation every summer in the not so well known at the time Mammoth Lakes for fishing and being in the beautiful eastern Sierras. To me there is no place more beautiful than the eastern Sierras from Bishop , to Reno. I've made a point of knowing everything about that area. I remember the winter of 1969 to be a record setting year. In fact there was so much snow that our skis would touch the snow while riding chair 2. The town of Mammoth was buried to beyond the roofs of the buildings and cabins. The snow actually caused roofs to cave in and some of the roads were closed until mid-July. As a 14 year old who grew up in the San Fernando Valley; that much snow fascinated me. I knew then Mammoth Lakes would be my second home for the rest of my life. As I'm now 68 years old, I'm happy to say it always has been. This year's snow pack has shown me that nature knows how to take care of things. Sure we went 20 years with relatively low snow years, but from the earth's timeline, 20 years is nothing. As humans that live here, the 20-year drought is a wake-up call for us to do a better job at using the earth's resources. I will tell you it definitely has been for me. I wonder why no one talks about the winter of 69? That was the January we saw 17 straight days of rain here in LA.
Loved your post. My husband moved to the Inland Empire in 1963 and I moved here in 1972. When we moved here everyone talked about the flood of 69 but not so much 54 years later. We are also skiers and visit Mammoth as often as we can. Its been incredible watching the snowfall amount this year. Going to do lots of spring skiing!
What's frustrating is most of this will run off into the ocean because there is no way to tie into the reservoirs with excess water runoff. meanwhile people were suffering from lack of water, this just doesn't make sense. They should have been prepared to take in this excess water at any time.
I see a lot of comments discrediting the title of this video by proclaiming that the winter of so-and-so in Alpine County or Tahoe or whatever was had more snow or that this is typical of the Sierra in general. But this video is about the SOUTHERN Sierra which, as anybody who has ventured the Walker pass area and points immediately to the north of there knows, is pretty darn dry and is often by-passed by the bulk of winter storms that hit the Yosemite-Tahoe part of the range. A lot of the area is little more than high elevation desert when it comes to precipitation.
@@davidwright873 The thing is David the UN and their IPCC has been injecting AL2O3 for many years now { Plane Farts } and that is cooling the entire planet.
@@davidwright873 It's just a question, they make it sound like since millenia began this is the deepest snowpack of all time....when I know it is not....and so do most of the viewers....I like accurate information, maybe you don't care....I think it's important...and your ending comment "LOL", pretty much tells me your state of mind. FYT
California need to build storage for this new normal. Years of draught need to catch the one year we get soaked. Central valley is 3ft lower because of all the water pump out.
You need to get your facts straight there Bill. El Nino and La Nina are two very different things. And the “pros” got it exactly right, noting early on that this was the third La Nina in a row and it would be very wet. Finally, why do you laugh with your ass.
@@larryricketts6546 Larry time for some education. First I don't laugh with my ass, I laugh my ass off. Why do I laugh my ass off? Because jokers like you like to create fiction. All reports were a dry year, not wet. It rains during El Nino and it was not an El Nino year. So yeah. LMAO. Opps, there it goes again. Laughed right off.
I love the titles they use heaviest snowfall ever recorded. So that means in the last 100 to 150 years at best . I wounder how much all the cemtrails have affected the weather.
A lot of these measurements are for the month, not year total. We need this to happen every year for 10 years to get back to normal. Lake Mead is up to 20% (I think) at the moment. One of the issues is we have depleted ground water, the subterranean water supplies. It will take decades for water to sink back into the underground reservoirs. Unrestrained construction has not helped.
that is BS. underground water problem is because of farmers, and needs human intervention to recharge with surface water. consumers use 10% of water in california. the problem are farmers who grow alfafa/almonds and green nuts who are trying to save a useless dart fish that is going extinct. tax the farmers who grow alfafa/almond and cook the dart fish for a cat feast.
@@waldoputty3555 holy shit are you honestly blaming farmers that grow food for human survival. The problem is moron government parasites banning water storage projects for the last 50 years. Seems a lot of stupid shit has been done in the last 50 years. Ever wonder why.
Snow is what makes the mountains fun! Learn how to use an ice axe (belay & arrest) and crampons, it will be a great summer for peak bagging in the Sierra.
@@byronsmith3152If you don’t know what you’re talking about just stay quiet. California’s agriculture takes up 85% of all water in Lake Mead & Powell. Las Vegas uses less than an inch off lake mead every year, while California uses 36 ft. Las Vegas is one of the most water conscientious cities in the world. The earliest civilizations have been in the desert
@@wayoutwest3009 Oh really smart one. Well those civilizations that you say lived in the desert actually built their cities near a water source that used to run through there but has since dried up. And you bring up California but fail to admit that it too is a DESERT in the areas using the water. Arizona and Mexico, which also get their water from Mead, DESERTS. But alas you lack thinking skills and would rather try and insult people instead of actually talking to them.
all this water yet the number of wells reported dry has increased from 88 to 102 since Jan 1st. Groundwater typically provides 42% of California’s needs. Let’s hope this wet season continues and the snow melts slowly
I looked at snowfall totals for several ski resorts around California. I looked back as far as the records went. That’s where you can see for yourself what the numbers are. When they say “average” how are they coming to that number? Of, course they’ll try to say this is a climate change issue.....
It isn't the most in recorded history. Not even close. In the early 1950's they had a whopper of a snowpack. Why do you say that? Thumbs down for a misleading title. I see you put it in quotes, so you knew it was phony. I would unsubscribe too for this, but I haven't subscribed.
I'm guessing it doesn't have that much effect. After all, the pressure is slow building and even slower releasing as the snow melts. And if I'm not mistaken it's the sudden release of pressure that causes earthquakes.
What happens if these storms do not stop coming? What if we get storms every week for a year or 2 years,, or 3 years? This could be caused by the underwater volcanothat blew it's top last spring. It might effect our weather for 3 years.
While select parts of the Sierra may have an all time record, that is NOT true for ALL of the Sierra. For example, in the 1982-1983 year, Donner Summit received an aggregate of 67 feet, compared to the current mid 50's. More could still be coming, but unless it will be over 10 feet, it will not be the all time record near Tahoe.
Yeah but many of the people affected don't have power or any way to connect to the internet to get information, so even posting where or how to get information is impossible for many to find out what they should do. How do people affected get information when they're cut off? Like for instance posting road closures because road is washed out and maybe power is out to cell tower your power at home is out too?
This new fangled thing called the radio. People broadcast all kinds of weather info and it’s free. AM radio works best in mountainous terrain, and has most of the news and weather talking head stuff anyway. The internet is so yesterday!! At least during true emergencies.
@@mindylinton9249 I didn't hear anything in this video about tuning to radio station XYZ83 did you? That's my point, now a days you're always directed to internet or cell
@@austinreeves5221 ...starlink? do you have starlink? Probably not. I've seen videos of starlink that people have and it's as slow as cold molasses IF they get a signal that is.
It will all melt into a huge flood, summer will definitely still be another scorcher. Weather is just getting more extreme, need to prepare 2 seasons ahead.
Getting more extreme than what? It has been worse, much worse. And the lying global warmers told us the west was going to just dry up and never get any more water.
People in here talking about floods of central valleys as if that's some historically gotcha as to this always happening. Well yeah but until the 1900s we didn't build many Reservoirs at all. Shit Lake Isabella the lake in my back yard holds 568k acre feet of water. All that would go straight to Bakersfield if not for the dam. So yeah maybe use the history of how California has changed rather than cherry picking shit to fit your arguments. Lake Isabella is at 50% capacity there is no way it is touching the spill way until after Mt Whitney and surrounding mountains melt. Bakersfield controls the Rights to the lake water do to the fact the Natural course is to fill what would be Kern Lake, Lake Buena Vista, and Tulare Lake all but one are gone.
Its good to see the weather going back to normal . 👍👍
This is typical of California Weather. We go through major droughts then we get major winters. This is exactly why people have been yelling at the Governor to increase storage throughout the State. This will all go to waste because they will have to release a lot of water prior to snow melt in spring.
Professional politicians like Newsom are so ignorant
And your idea for storage is?
Exactly!
They have had several opportunities to increase the acre feet capacity of all its reservoirs when water was way down, but each time have failed to do so.
The money is being syphoned off to pay the bloated pensions. Also to pay the Housing Industrial Complex as well as other taxpayer fraud.
I'm 75 years old. When I was a kid growing up, early 50s to mid-60s, I lived on a farm east of an Iowa metro area. We had hills (great sledding in winter, running around summer), hills with timber (more chasing around winter/summer), and a good-sized pond (swimming and ice skating). We always had 90s in the summer (100s probably, I was a kid, and didn't pay attention), and there was that frozen-over pond in the winter (-10/-20F winters). Ice skating/sledding time.
Anyway, I don't recall ever hearing the terms "wind chill" or "heat index." I also don't remember some sweet young thing on the weather forecast telling me when I needed a stocking cap & gloves or when to get a fan and stay hydrated. As memory allows, it seems my mother and father were quite capable of getting that message across. And by the way, they did very well providing the necessary clothing for us to go out and participate in those mental and physical activities. No Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat for us. Nope, when it came time for formal sports in school, we were already in shape from the activities we thought up at home.
Different time, different place. Great memories.
Thank you for commenting. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
I've lived in Iowa my whole life of 59 years and I couldn't agree more
Same for this NYC OG. No one NEEDED to watch Aloha Taylor for the SD weather. But a lot of us did.
many Karens, little common sense
Great points just shows how weak and fragile society is now…stupid breeds stupid
I see a UPS truck in the picture at the 1:00 mark. No matter how hot, cold, rainy, snowy, or windy it is, i'll always see a UPS driver out there wearing a pair of shorts and driving with the doors open.
Mt Baker in Washington State holds the world record for the most snowfall for one season at 1140 inches in the 1998-99 season.
That’s 95 ft of snow! We’re at 52 ft plus whatever this storm and every other one comes before the season ends. We might come close. Who knows? It’s been a crazy season of moisture.
Entire Cali Central Valley becomes a massive lake for months at a time about every 160 yrs from train of atmospheric rivers. Last time was 1862 and permanently altered Sacramento. This doesn't come close to that. Establishment media provides endless drama and history denial.
Whoa baby!!!
@@Mrbfgray Stuff like that and lil ice age... dust bowl ruin their fake green climate lie..
@@daveriddlelin9327 They call us climate change deniers (invoking Holocaust denialism which is stupid) and I call them "History Deniers".
Well, it's not called Sierra Nevada for no reason. Sierra means mountain, and nevada means snow (ed). Spanish, darling.
Yep, Sierra Nevada, snow covered mountains.
"The Snowy Mountains" 👍
Yes Darling, pero no mames.
nevada means "snow covered"
Don't joke about it. I am sure the last global warming era, 6,000 years ago, started this way.........
Sierra Nevada make some good beers. I hope to get back to Chico someday to enjoy the atmosphere of the brewery again.
People praying for the drought to end. Seems to have worked.
How quickly that word is erased from out lexicon...
*Extreme weather anomalies are AGW related as well. Gods have nothing to do with it.*
Extreme droughts seem to have extreme endings. I just hope CA can stay out of a drought now. Just average rain and snowfall from now on. No more severe disasters.
"Seems to" applied to a short-term event is good enough for those that *want* to believe in divine intervention.
Unfortunately the climate cult count their prayers in bucks and martyred citizens.
I remember 82.. wild year of rain and snow
Sure was! I was in New Mexico and those storms that rolled thru southern California and moved inland thru the southwest still packing a lot of rain and snow.
How long is "recorded history"? Only date I heard was 1980's. What was snowfall like in 1923 or 17 23?
I was curious also so I looked it up. Total recorded human history about 5k years. California weather history started 1847.
Total missing human history is about 300,000 years. 🧠 🍄 ☁️ !
"There's no water!" BOOM, There ya' go! "There's too much water!" LOL
As usual, the news people can't get it right. Maybe the ""Southern Sierra" has a darn deep snowpack I'm sure but to call it "Largest Snowpack in Recorded History" I think is incorrect.
Weather records in the Sierra began in1870 with completion of the first through railroad.
The greatest annual snowfall ever recorded in the Sierra was at Tamerack, Alpine county (8000 feet)-73 1/2 feet during the winter 1906- 1907. This according to the handbook, "Sierra Nevada Natural History" University of California Press, Berkely, CA 8th printing 1974.
"Largest snowpack in recorded history" sounds good and grabs our attention, which is what the writer wanted to do. Accuracy of the reported information takes a back seat.
Problem is that you'll get a heat wave and it will all melt in a week and cause flooding.
ok Tom....🤣
And Newsom will call for water usage control
He is a Commie
It wasn’t long ago the enviros were demanding hetch-hetchy be demolished.
We need MORE reservoirs & hydro. Not less.
Recorded history since the snow lab began their recording in 1946.
Snow does not accumulate evenly everywhere, but the relay station near Relay Peak (overlooking Lake Tahoe) has about 5’ less than it did in winter 2017-18.
That snow looks 100% Epic.
And it's carbon neutral, or some shit like that. Cocaine's a helluva drug!
Do you see what we can do when we ALL PRAY DANCE💃 for RAIN 🌧
JUST IMAGINE WHAT WE CAN ALL DO FOR PEACE✌️ ☮️ 🕊
Very short timeline! What about 1897? 1903?
When I check the actual weather history in the Sierra's,, this weather is not record braking. It is impressive. (1951-1952 2.348 over 198 feet......2010-2011 1.857 over 154 feet) For this 2022-2023 season it's reported more than 48 feet or 576 in of snow so far this season.
200 feet of snowfall? that doesn't sound right. In any case, I can see California Department of Water Resources mention that it is the record year for the southern sierra (with 81/82 being the #2 year) but not sure how far back that series of measurements go (maybe not harmonized to 51/52 data)
Yeah and in 1951 we still had Massive Lakes in the central Valley that sometimes helped Create Lake Effect snow. You say 576" but Mammoth Mountain at 9k feet says 700"+ inches at the Summit. They have 600" at lodge which in 2010 saw 668" so pretty damn close with the season pretty far from over as it's been snowing all day there.
*record BREAKING*
@@barillius Thanks for the spell check... How would we ever make it through this comment??? No one would be able to read it!!!!!
@@budd1814 Dude... proper grammar and spelling is the difference between "knowing your shit" and "knowing you're shit". Besides, if we continue to dumb down America we'll get more and more idiot trump supporters to destroy our nation. So, yea, do better.
How much of the snowmelt from the Southern Sierra region get put into the reservoir/aqueduct system?
It will all go there but the problem is the reservoirs are close to full which means they will have to drain now to make room. As I have mentioned, this is why people have been jumping up and down for more storage. We knew this was coming. This is typical of California weather.
A lot of the snowmelt ends up in the reservoirs and aqueducts. And a lot of that water is allocated for crop irrigation. If California didn't grow crops, there would be a major problem in the U.S. food chain. Most of the water that ends up flowing to the Pacific Ocean, especially in So Cal, comes from cities and municipal areas where the water runs down street gutters, off of roofs, etc. It's not the cleanest water when you consider where it came from.
I saw a chart looked like 1950 had most .
Maybe I saw it wrong .
Now we know why the native people didn't winter or venture into the mountains in winter time .
1952 and why I was born!...
I think it relates to water amount, some snows are drier, may be deeper but the water content isn't there. Sounds like this snow has a lot of frozen water
The start of a new glacier, returning ice age
@@boblatkey7160 Back when I was in school during the 60s that was what the schools were saying the great ice age is coming then it became global warming now climate change. Don't worry the climate alarmist will be back to the big Ice Age soon enough.
@@boblatkey7160 STOP posing as an expert on weather systems, Latkey. you don't know anything
I love these new rivers (atmospheric), they start in the ocean, travel uphill and dump snow on top of the mountain, the reverse of normal rivers..lmao
*SIMPLY JAW-DROPPING! MOTHER NATURE LAUGHS AT US PUNY MORTALS.*
it's not a record year in the sierras. it's just a big year.
So how deep is the snow? I've seen 40 feet on the ground (not a drift) west of Tahoe in 1968/9.
In Mammoth at the summit they are pushing 700"+ and at the Lodge they are sitting around 600" so 50' with 24-32" of snow supposed to hit in next day or two.
It's not 50' thick tho. It's 20-25 and less in other spots. It gets compacted over time with the weight. I was just there last week. The wind up top was probably 80mph when it was open.
@@robbie5138 700” over the season. Not current depth
@@robbie5138 The question was how deep is the snow, not how much snow fell for the season.
@@hazmat6744 25 feet. That makes more sense.
Bypassing the year of the Donner party? Wow...century?
Al Gore has left the building. Lol
Replaced by Maroons that don't consider snowless NY State this year.
@@johntuttle9544 Buffalo has moved ???????
I hate to break to you but some snow in one place doesn’t change the fact the whole planet is warming
@@Jc-ms5vv Its called weather, it changes all the time. How did the last 3 ice ages end??? If you look at the science the world temperature is much cooler than the past. Yes its going up a bit right now. Some of that is the temp sensors are in urban environments and urban heat island is a real thing. If you would spend the time and look at the ice core samples you would understand the truth. Please do your research. Weather has changed on this plant so so many times its nuts. If nothing else, please explain how did we have anything to do with coming out of not one or two but multiple ice ages.
@@gbro8822 yeah we’re pumping c02 into the atmosphere ten times faster then the petm extinction event. You should do some actual research on abrupt cc. Compare previous mass extinctions to the rate of this one.
I'm so glad we are receiving so much rain and snow this year. I have always been very interested in our water here in the west. I love knowing how it flows from high in the Rockys where the Colorado River begins, where it flows from there through the natural passes of The upper basin, into Glen Canyon, Lake Powell out of the Glen Canyon Dam, to the Grand Canyon and then eventually down to Lake Mead created by the mighty Hoover Dam. In the Sierras, where it flows down both the western and eastern slopes then out to the sea. I have always wanted to know the path it takes as it flows back to the Pacific. We hear about this has been the highest snowpack in recorded history and the record snowpacks of the past. Like the 82, 83 record, and the ones of the early 2000s. As a skier, it always means a long season. As a kid in the 60s, my family would vacation every summer in the not so well known at the time Mammoth Lakes for fishing and being in the beautiful eastern Sierras. To me there is no place more beautiful than the eastern Sierras from Bishop , to Reno. I've made a point of knowing everything about that area. I remember the winter of 1969 to be a record setting year. In fact there was so much snow that our skis would touch the snow while riding chair 2. The town of Mammoth was buried to beyond the roofs of the buildings and cabins. The snow actually caused roofs to cave in and some of the roads were closed until mid-July. As a 14 year old who grew up in the San Fernando Valley; that much snow fascinated me. I knew then Mammoth Lakes would be my second home for the rest of my life. As I'm now 68 years old, I'm happy to say it always has been. This year's snow pack has shown me that nature knows how to take care of things. Sure we went 20 years with relatively low snow years, but from the earth's timeline, 20 years is nothing. As humans that live here, the 20-year drought is a wake-up call for us to do a better job at using the earth's resources. I will tell you it definitely has been for me. I wonder why no one talks about the winter of 69? That was the January we saw 17 straight days of rain here in LA.
This is why people should grow food not lawns.
Loved your post. My husband moved to the Inland Empire in 1963 and I moved here in 1972. When we moved here everyone talked about the flood of 69 but not so much 54 years later. We are also skiers and visit Mammoth as often as we can. Its been incredible watching the snowfall amount this year. Going to do lots of spring skiing!
Other than skiing what have U done to help ?
If the snow pack doesn't melt during summer, is that a glacier forming?
What's frustrating is most of this will run off into the ocean because there is no way to tie into the reservoirs with excess water runoff. meanwhile people were suffering from lack of water, this just doesn't make sense. They should have been prepared to take in this excess water at any time.
Our reservoirs here are full.
Still filling in the Central Valley and some other places.
Water is being caught.
Very good! Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Hopefully, the snow pack stays for water storage , we depend so much on snow run off
I see a lot of comments discrediting the title of this video by proclaiming that the winter of so-and-so in Alpine County or Tahoe or whatever was had more snow or that this is typical of the Sierra in general. But this video is about the SOUTHERN Sierra which, as anybody who has ventured the Walker pass area and points immediately to the north of there knows, is pretty darn dry and is often by-passed by the bulk of winter storms that hit the Yosemite-Tahoe part of the range. A lot of the area is little more than high elevation desert when it comes to precipitation.
When this melts there should be some great Kayaking!
Only in recorded history, and how long has that been?
Blink of an eye, yet we think everything revolves around us.
"In recorded history"? How long is recorded history of the snowpack in the Sierras? 100 years, maybe? maybe a hundred and fifty?
settle down Jeff....really not that important...really....lol
@@davidwright873 The thing is David the UN and their IPCC has been injecting AL2O3 for many years now { Plane Farts } and that is cooling the entire planet.
@@davidwright873 It's just a question, they make it sound like since millenia began this is the deepest snowpack of all time....when I know it is not....and so do most of the viewers....I like accurate information, maybe you don't care....I think it's important...and your ending comment "LOL", pretty much tells me your state of mind. FYT
I want to know what Fauci says. He is science! Ask him, he'll tell you he is! ....Can't throw a baseball for sh&t!!....
California need to build storage for this new normal. Years of draught need to catch the one year we get soaked. Central valley is 3ft lower because of all the water pump out.
The snow packs helps everything behind the sierras as well. cooler winds and water that will get picked up and carried into nevada and beyond.
And the pros predicted el Nina or no precipitation this season. LMAO
You need to get your facts straight there Bill. El Nino and La Nina are two very different things. And the “pros” got it exactly right, noting early on that this was the third La Nina in a row and it would be very wet. Finally, why do you laugh with your ass.
@@larryricketts6546 Larry time for some education. First I don't laugh with my ass, I laugh my ass off. Why do I laugh my ass off? Because jokers like you like to create fiction. All reports were a dry year, not wet. It rains during El Nino and it was not an El Nino year. So yeah. LMAO. Opps, there it goes again. Laughed right off.
yes, and that is why I never give "experts" any credence
@@neckarsulme you don't give expert doctors credence? smart
Yes, NOAA totally blew their "outlook".
I love the titles they use heaviest snowfall ever recorded. So that means in the last 100 to 150 years at best . I wounder how much all the cemtrails have affected the weather.
All weather in this country is engineered, whether directly or indirectly. So, a lot lol
@@Weather_Nerd
Thats what I was getting at .
Ridiculous
the beaches of san diego usually get 2 1/2 inches of rain per year - i've gotten almost 10" of rain since january ..
you haven't lived her long have you??
Imperial Beach has an average rainfall total of 10 inches. What are you talking about.
Good thing is it's washed all the human waste off the sidewalks in the gaslamp
A lot of these measurements are for the month, not year total. We need this to happen every year for 10 years to get back to normal. Lake Mead is up to 20% (I think) at the moment. One of the issues is we have depleted ground water, the subterranean water supplies. It will take decades for water to sink back into the underground reservoirs. Unrestrained construction has not helped.
that is BS.
underground water problem is because of farmers, and needs human intervention to recharge with surface water.
consumers use 10% of water in california. the problem are farmers who grow alfafa/almonds and green nuts who are trying to save a useless dart fish that is going extinct. tax the farmers who grow alfafa/almond and cook the dart fish for a cat feast.
@@waldoputty3555 As the saying goes, no farms, no food.
@Gwen Reader I can get by without almonds.
Need more of those 1000' water wells.
@@waldoputty3555 holy shit are you honestly blaming farmers that grow food for human survival. The problem is moron government parasites banning water storage projects for the last 50 years. Seems a lot of stupid shit has been done in the last 50 years. Ever wonder why.
And when it melts comes the water over load in California !...
Snow is what makes the mountains fun! Learn how to use an ice axe (belay & arrest) and crampons, it will be a great summer for peak bagging in the Sierra.
To bad this historic snowfall won't solve the water shortages in lake Mead and lake Powell. Check out the current info. Best to all.
Well that is what happens when you build hundred of thousands of homes in a DESERT. People will never ever learn I swear.
@@byronsmith3152If you don’t know what you’re talking about just stay quiet. California’s agriculture takes up 85% of all water in Lake Mead & Powell. Las Vegas uses less than an inch off lake mead every year, while California uses 36 ft. Las Vegas is one of the most water conscientious cities in the world. The earliest civilizations have been in the desert
@@wayoutwest3009 Oh really smart one. Well those civilizations that you say lived in the desert actually built their cities near a water source that used to run through there but has since dried up. And you bring up California but fail to admit that it too is a DESERT in the areas using the water. Arizona and Mexico, which also get their water from Mead, DESERTS. But alas you lack thinking skills and would rather try and insult people instead of actually talking to them.
Thanks
Wonder what all the weight is going to do on that plate out there in the ocean?
Hey God bless you all
67 feet of snow in 1951-52.
No whining about water this year. Thanks.
The fluid will be a surprise
all this water yet the number of wells reported dry has increased from 88 to 102 since Jan 1st. Groundwater typically provides 42% of California’s needs. Let’s hope this wet season continues and the snow melts slowly
I looked at snowfall totals for several ski resorts around California. I looked back as far as the records went. That’s where you can see for yourself what the numbers are. When they say “average” how are they coming to that number? Of, course they’ll try to say this is a climate change issue.....
It isn't the most in recorded history. Not even close. In the early 1950's they had a whopper of a snowpack. Why do you say that? Thumbs down for a misleading title. I see you put it in quotes, so you knew it was phony. I would unsubscribe too for this, but I haven't subscribed.
Imagine what all that weight does to the earthquake zones and volcanoes. Massive pressure!
I'm guessing it doesn't have that much effect. After all, the pressure is slow building and even slower releasing as the snow melts. And if I'm not mistaken it's the sudden release of pressure that causes earthquakes.
Good Bye drought!
You need two more winters of this for that to happen.
Well we have had nonstop heavy rain today 3/14 in northern California if it's doing this down there they might have to release
What happens if these storms do not stop coming? What if we get storms every week for a year or 2 years,, or 3 years? This could be caused by the underwater volcanothat blew it's top last spring. It might effect our weather for 3 years.
Remember in1983 when Hover Dam spilled over with less snow.
While select parts of the Sierra may have an all time record, that is NOT true for ALL of the Sierra.
For example, in the 1982-1983 year, Donner Summit received an aggregate of 67 feet, compared to the current mid 50's. More could still be coming, but unless it will be over 10 feet, it will not be the all time record near Tahoe.
There’s a guy around the corner from me has an Ark for sale if anyone is interested, he’s ready to deal…
Yeah but many of the people affected don't have power or any way to connect to the internet to get information, so even posting where or how to get information is impossible for many to find out what they should do. How do people affected get information when they're cut off? Like for instance posting road closures because road is washed out and maybe power is out to cell tower your power at home is out too?
This new fangled thing called the radio. People broadcast all kinds of weather info and it’s free. AM radio works best in mountainous terrain, and has most of the news and weather talking head stuff anyway. The internet is so yesterday!! At least during true emergencies.
@@mindylinton9249 I didn't hear anything in this video about tuning to radio station XYZ83 did you? That's my point, now a days you're always directed to internet or cell
Praying for those people that somehow someone can gain access to them to bring food and water etc
@@harryberry474 learn to prepare in advance. back up generators and starlink
@@austinreeves5221 ...starlink? do you have starlink? Probably not. I've seen videos of starlink that people have and it's as slow as cold molasses IF they get a signal that is.
But we are still in a “drought”
Geo-egineering.
Just wait and see what happens when all this snow melts, our Mayor informed us there are sandbags available. S.O.L. baby, a City with one solution.
Earthquakes next! Run!
It rained at all the Ski Resorts.
So much for Newsoms and NOAA's forecast fear mongering drought last September 2022 🤣
Because Democrats all lie always. When people start figuring that out, the whole nation will be one better.
The Spring Melt is going to take out the un maintained levees! MWM
Glad everybody has flooded insurance.
Oh no it's Global Cooling 😭
Empty all reservoirs before the dams fail!
It's still NOT the normal amount of snow. I'm old enough to remember what's normal.
It will all melt into a huge flood, summer will definitely still be another scorcher. Weather is just getting more extreme, need to prepare 2 seasons ahead.
if you say so
there is no natural weather left on the planet. Geo-engineering now controls all weather.
that's what happens when the globalists seed the skies. It's called geoengineering, so I don't want to hear about the so-called climate crisis!
Yeah like this is never happened before.
Getting more extreme than what? It has been worse, much worse.
And the lying global warmers told us the west was going to just dry up and never get any more water.
Boojaa. We got water.
Cloud seeding what could it hurt. Lower Temps. Earlier and later tornadoes. 24 dead yesterday?
The thaw will likely wash away Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams.
Plus, all the homeless people will get a free bath.
I doubt that
No no no no no this is not good for the drought
Start shipping the snow to the Hoover Dam now before it’s lost …. Or maybe the melt will clean out the trash in CA
You watch, these guys will be in drought mode by mid summer.
But...but, muh climate change...
How is Donner pass ? You guys have enough ketchup ? 🍖
California shouldn't mind if we shut the gates off at Mead and Powell for a year then.
I dare to say that it was worse during the Ice Age.
& more to come
Sure doesn't look like "Global Warming" to me.
Just think if California had built some reservoirs instead of drag show theaters….
Global warming!🤪
The coming floods . . .
Fabulous!!!!
Haven't they've been in a couple century drought?
People in here talking about floods of central valleys as if that's some historically gotcha as to this always happening. Well yeah but until the 1900s we didn't build many Reservoirs at all. Shit Lake Isabella the lake in my back yard holds 568k acre feet of water. All that would go straight to Bakersfield if not for the dam. So yeah maybe use the history of how California has changed rather than cherry picking shit to fit your arguments. Lake Isabella is at 50% capacity there is no way it is touching the spill way until after Mt Whitney and surrounding mountains melt. Bakersfield controls the Rights to the lake water do to the fact the Natural course is to fill what would be Kern Lake, Lake Buena Vista, and Tulare Lake all but one are gone.
Another opportunity lost. California hasn’t built a new reservoir since 1978.
Construction of the Sites Reservoir will commence in 2024. Estimated date of completion 2030.
Capacity....1.4 million acre feet.
Cost....$4.4 billion.
Warden newsum dont care.
Dang that Global Warming.
Sir Global of House Warming took the year off.
We were warned over 100 years ago that it was coming! Why aren't all of the alarmist in prison?
Good maybe LA won't be taking our water away from our central valley so we can continue to feed the world.