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Finally a storm where the North end of the lake does better and East of the crest didn’t get shadowed out. 6-10 inches fell on everyone on the North end of the lake overnight. Even got 5 inches here at the house. South lake resorts got 3-4 inches. Temps last night were in the teens as the snow fell so it is champagne style powder. High snow ratios of 20-30:1 increased totals. The past week has not been too bad with resorts along the crest getting 32-46 inches and resorts East of the crest getting 13-24 inches.

Temps will only be in the 20’s today and then will rebound back into the 40’s tomorrow with a ridge building in. Next storm approaches on Friday with snow breaking out by Friday night. This storm is much stronger than the last two, but only moderate in strength. Looking for 6-9 inches at lake level with 9-12 inches above 7000 ft., and 12-15 inches on the crest.

After a cold day Saturday a ridge builds in Sunday with temps warming into the 50’s by Monday and Tuesday. This will be the warmest weather we have seen in a long time. It could break 60 in Truckee. It looks as if the ridge will be strong enough to keep the next storm for next Wednesday just to our North. The storm will drop temps a bit before another warm-up for the end of next week.

El Nino continued it’s fade last week and soon will be in the weak category. The MJO is dead for the rest of the season it appears. This means that the end of this month may be the last shot at a storm train. Models still back and forth on the idea of the ridge pinching off to our North allowing the jetstream to come under it into CA starting around the 20th of the month. Do your dances and prayers for this to develop. There won’t be much blocking over the East so the stage should be set for this to develop.

The sun has begun another stretch of spotless days. After 2 of the least spotless years in a century the past 2 years, it appeared as if the sun may be waking out of it’s minimum and finally starting it’s next cycle the last 2 months. A quiet sun not only has an affect on the earth’s temps, but I have been reading some research that suggests it could be a cause of an increase in earthquakes. Interesting to watch…..BA

Cold front is approaching today dropping temps into the 20’s for high temps on the mountains. As the cold front moves through this evening we could see 1-3 inches of snow with 2-4 inches on the crest. Temps stay cold tomorrow with another cold front moving through tomorrow night into Wednesday that could drop the same amounts of snow. We are catching the Southern end of storms hitting the Pacific NW with cold air pouring in.

Things look to warm up with a ridge on Thursday and Friday ahead of another storm that will drop light amounts of snow Friday night into Saturday. We could catch one more dusting next Tuesday before the ridge builds in the second half of next week.

What will happen the third week of the month is that the ridge along the West coast will try to pinch off to our North allowing storms to come under the ridge into CA. This will be our shot at some big storms this month. Stay tuned……BA