After being buried in snow just two weeks ago, we are now being washed away! A total of 95 inches of SNOW since Christmas Eve Day and a total of 18 inches of RAIN as of this AM for the same period! The snow is holding up quite well considering the intensity of the downpours this morning. Dodge Ridge web cameras are the best source of information as to just what the weather is UP HERE, they are 1600 feet higher than we are so often they are getting SNOW when we are getting RAIN.
My grand daughter posted a photo of New Melones Reservoir taken last evening, and it is starting to look like a lake again rather than a river in the bottom of a canyon as it has for the past three years!! I understand from one of the comments that the boat ramp is STILL quite a ways from being in the water, but with this snow to melt this summer, there is hope.
I remember when we owned the Strawberry Inn that EVERY TIME we hired heavy equipment to move the snow - there was no longer any room to push it with the plow - the next BIG STORM would detour to Hawaii and come in as rain!! Seemed like such a waste of money, but there is really no way of knowing. Now we have the same scenario only it is the DECKS on the ten cabins that we are responsible for!!
This morning it is raining at the SAME temperature as those SNOW STORMS of mid-January. Seems strange to me but the name Weathers really gives no assurance that WE can foresee the weather or even understand it!! Having been pilots we can at least read the satellites with some degree of accuracy. We at least look out the window and check the temperature outside our kitchen! The other morning one of the Weather Sites said it was 45 degrees in Strawberry, the thermometer said 25!! BIG DIFFERENCE!
Wherever you are today - stay safe, warm, and dry! Have a Blessed Day!!
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