powderfreak

May, but yeah we can sometimes hit those super dry heat max temps before vegetation is really out.

Over 50% of the yard is still snow covered here.

We have a great small knit crew that diligently takes care of it throughout the season and we do really enjoy it. It’s nice to see what it is actually at the ski area, vs just estimating snowfall and throwing numbers out there. You really see the importance of taking a measurement at the same place all the time and as a skier, you start to be able to guess pretty accurately what you’ll find there based on observations elsewhere on the mountain. No matter what, as long as one continues to record obs in the same manner over and over, it makes for fun data comparisons.

10.4F And such a nice sunny morning shaping up but god damn…

High in the 20s is just cruel under full sunshine this time of year.

It’s obnoxiously cold today.

That western heater is just bananas. Hottest March temperatures in Salt Lake City… it’s like the whole past week is up there. The ski areas getting all sorts of weird wet avalanches they’ve never seen before.

I thought it was supposed to rain today? Models had light QPF midday and yet it’s sunny and 50s up here. Amazing win for several hours here.

Yeah my lab is 11 and I know that day is coming. Anything past 12 years old is borrowed time.

I think he likes the Day 7 snow maps more.

It definitely can be, but can also get real exciting when trees and objects are coming at you fast and self preservation means you need to avoid them, ha.

Today was phenomenal.

5” today… 70” depth… 288” measured season total. Cleared and reset for the next snowfall.

Of course, I'd hope as a science board we all had this type of nuance and discretion. We see posters question observations all the time, ahem Coastalwx. There should be an understanding that we all can see the signs of stations running off the rails (MADIS analysis) on here. But the discussion started on the western heat, too. Regardless of what we think of instruments, extra sitings, etc... this has been a high-end heater out west. Even if certain sites may run warm, the 50,000 foot view of this is a high-end heater. Even if we chalk up and toss several sites for setting their April records to siting or instrumentation.

From a 50,000 foot view though, are they *all* wrong? There absolutely are going to be some instrumentation issues, siting issues, etc… but looking at the collective from afar, are they all wrong? Are mesonets and other climate recording sites that are deemed ok, showing conflicting data? What about sensors running too cold? Plenty of those too, but the focus here seems to be the warm ones… or is it just a general statement because of MSM latching onto the warm ones?