A little La Nina note:

Historically, La Niñas mean colder than average winters in CA. Which means high pressure, which means less precipitation. The low pressure pocket favors the PNW, hence the heavy snowfall. In an El Niño the low pressure pocket favors CA. Who remembers the 06'-07' Winter? One of the worst in California history. Record cold temperatures were set and orange farmers were lighting fire to piles of thousands of peach pits to keep their crop from freezing. La Niña is bad for CA. If you go in December it shouldn't be bad because ski areas are always geting up and going around then no matter how much snow has fallen. You will begin to see the affects around mid January.

And that actually pretty good for us haha

still not getting a very clear reading on the east

that blows..im psyched to get dumped on this year

Whew! P N DUB's gettin the DUMP

is it ever not fucked?

Ok can someone say what this means for the East coast (N.Y to be exact)

i wish i lived in the pnw, they have good winters every winter

C d c

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Stop asking what this means for the east coast.

We're talking lots and lots of pow here. Who knows whether your puny new york hill will get 50 inches or 90.  

False. Remember 2004-05? 2000-01? 2009-10?

http://www.theskichannel.com/news/skinews/20100706/La-Nina-is-coming-A-skier-perspective-of-this-weather-pattern

this might help some of yoiu

on another note i heard that everywere is going to have a colder winter because of the volcano in iceland, its going to affect our winder forsure

yay i live in PNW this is good

Nope. The negative temperature anomaly as a result of the volcano will be minimal, as it was after Mt. St. Helens's eruption in 1980. As for the East Coast, La Nina winters are typically warmer--especially in the mid-Atlantic.

Trust me... 06-07 was by far not the worst thing... it was bad, but nothing like say.. 1976 or even 1987. Least we had snow all year because it was bitterly cold and the snowmaking capabilities for resorts was pretty good by then. Not to mention, it followed a pretty awesome run of seasons in the mid 2000's... so there was plenty of reservoir water to turn into snow. Then, when it did actually really snow in february, shit got real for about a month and it was fun. It just all ended by early april...

the worst was the mid 70's, late 80's and early 90's. they were some shitty ass times for California. Epic drought years where Tahoe's depth was below the reservoir limit of 6'. It created this really weird situation on tahoe... beaches that were normally 10 - 15 feet out were extended to nearly 50 or more feet in some places..

I remember it vividly being a little kid on this massive beach playing with toy hot wheels trucks... in summer '93 or something. I lost one because i buried it, a and seeing as it was such a massive beach area, there was pretty much ZERO way of finding that shit. I cried pretty hard and was obviously upset enough to remember it to this day. It's probably been underwater now for about 15 years. People in California were urged to recycle water whenever necessary so their plants didnt die, not wash their cars, and to share showers that would last no longer than 7 or 8 minutes.

It finally ended with the epic miracle march of 1994 which set records that would last until 2006 when we had over 300" in some places in the same month.

several drought years in a row usually spell decent seasons in tahoe for just as long. from 2006 until last year we had fairly average- below average seasons, but they seemed pretty mediocre for snow seeing as storm cycles were very clumped, and this meant below average winters in our eyes.

I expect a season with... maybe 100 less inches than last year, but still pretty decent times.

But what the fuck do i care, i'm moving to Oregon.