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Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Nov 29, 2012 - 09:16am PT

Send it to the mountains where it belongs. Spare the desert!! There's more climbing to be done!

climbski2

Mountain climber

Anchorage AK, Reno NV

Nov 29, 2012 - 09:37am PT

Minor Truckee Flooding Possible by Weekend.

Been about 7 years since last one.. Hopefully not this time but...

The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a
* Flood Watch for
the Truckee River at Vista
* from Sunday afternoon to Monday afternoon.
* At 1:15 PM Wednesday the stage was 4.4 feet.
* Minor flooding is possible.
* Flood stage is 15.0 feet.
* Forecast... flood stage may be reached by Sunday afternoon.
* Impact... at 15.0 feet... minor flooding begins in lowest portions
of the Truckee Meadows, including Truckee River bike path through
Sparks, University farm, Boynton Slough, Rosewood lakes Golf
course. High stages on the Truckee begin to cause backwater
flooding from storm drains in lower Sparks Industrial area, and
along Steamboat Creek.

Flood watch in effect for other areas of CA and NV. Don't be dumb out there.
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RENO http://www.reno.gov/index.aspx?page=1294

If you or your business may be in the affected areas here is where you can get free sandbags.

Due to the current weather forecast and the potential for flooding, sandbags and sand will be available to the public at one location beginning Saturday, Dec. 18 at 8 a.m. This site will be accessible and materials will be available daily between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., including this Saturday and Sunday.

Parking lot of Governors Bowl Park located at the end of Line Drive off of East Fourth Street. Line Drive is on the North side of East Fourth Street just East of Sixth Street.

BYOS (Bring Your Own Shovel)

Play Video

Watch a video on how to properly use sandbags
Please be advised that you will need to bring a shovel and fill the sandbags yourself.

Should the potential for flooding and the demand for sandbags increase, we will activate additional sandbag sites pursuant to the city's flood action plan.

Maysho

climber

Soda Springs, CA

Nov 29, 2012 - 09:53am PT

Yes up at Donner the fluffy 5 inches has been sogged down to 1 by rain...still going to head out for a saturated ski workout, gotta get what I can, someday it will snow, and we will have races!

Peter

Gal

Trad climber

a semi lucid consciousness

Nov 29, 2012 - 10:05am PT

YES Jaybro, i agree, please spare the desert!!!!

TwistedCrank

climber

Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho

Nov 29, 2012 - 10:50am PT

The Mammoth Mtn web cams are really quite humorous.

rincon

Trad climber

SoCal

Nov 29, 2012 - 12:09pm PT

http://ca.water.usgs.gov/webcams/truckee/webcam-oper.html

Big Mike

Trad climber

Nov 29, 2012 - 12:15pm PT

You guys aren't alone... This is never a good sign....

can't say

Social climber

Pasadena CA

Nov 29, 2012 - 12:18pm PT

When I worked at Squaw Valley in 1980, we had a good 6' base by New Years day. A few days later we got hit by the Pineapple Express and it rained continuously for 3 days. The whole East Face of KT-22, Reddog and Reddog Ridge climax avalanched. It took out most of the lower lift towers of Olympic Lady and ruined a lot of buzzez that winter. There were 4' water erosion channels on most of the Mountain Run. This winter could shape up to be something similar IMO.

BuddhaStalin

climber

Truckee, CA

Nov 29, 2012 - 12:28pm PT

Nothing but rain at my house, 40 degrees right now, ~6900 ft. Got a butthair of snow yesterday, but gone.

Chaz

Trad climber

greater Boss Angeles area

Nov 29, 2012 - 12:57pm PT

Here in SoCal, the combination rain guage / squirrel feeder is showing about an eighth of an inch, so we're getting the hell hammered out of us too.

Captain...or Skully

climber

Nov 29, 2012 - 01:56pm PT

Patience. It will come.

T*R edit: Warm is a relative term.

Hoser

climber

vancouver

Nov 29, 2012 - 02:53pm PT

-2 and snowing in that WB lodge pic

John M

climber

Nov 29, 2012 - 03:46pm PT

About the tahoe guy. Almost always take weather forecasting with a grain of salt. Especially long term prognostication. What I like about the tahoe page is that he explains things in ways that I can understand. I know that he isn't always right, and has even made some big mistakes. So what. He at least gave some explanation for why he was so wrong. And those guys with all the letters after their names have also made lots of mistakes. He is just one of many tools that I use to try to get an understanding for what is going to happen. I also like some of the graphics he posts.

I also look outside. I read a story once about a big storm that hit california a number of years ago. Back in the 50s I think. I can't remember where I found it, probably in our local book sale. Part of it was from the weather forecasters point of view. He told a story about reminding the new forecasters to always go outside before they posted their forecast. This was because they worked in a big building inside with no windows. He said that when he was new he was working nights and he studied all of the info that they had, was about to post that it was going to be a sunny morning, but one of the night cleaners said he had just been outside and it was raining hard. He was that off in his prediction.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Nov 29, 2012 - 03:50pm PT

News media weather "forecasters" are rarely professional meteorologists.

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Nov 29, 2012 - 03:56pm PT

This was because they worked in a big building inside with no windows. He said that when he was new he was working nights and he studied all of the info that they had, was about to post that it was going to be a sunny morning

Ain't that the truth. Salt Lake City, ca 1968. Late afternoon, summer, about 5:30. TV weatherman forecasting chance of showers.
While it was thunder, lightning and raining leopards and wolves right outside the studio door. I know, I was in a building across the street. A building with windows.

And now we return to our regular programming.

dave goodwin

climber

carson city, nv

Nov 29, 2012 - 04:02pm PT

while gowing up in Tahoe we use to watch the weather on TV from Bay Area news channels. The most popular weatherman was Pete Giddings. We called him Pete's Kidding!!

He was frequently seen around the casinos wearing full length fur coats. We figured the casinos probably took good care of him to enusre good forecasts to bring the tourist up.

FredC

Boulder climber

Santa Cruz, CA

Nov 29, 2012 - 04:09pm PT

That first unit of storm did very little down here in Watsonville. We do know how to do mud down here.

I am thinking to wax my skating skis because I am so ready to go but I don't want to mess up the whole winter by tempting fate.

Maybe I'll wash my car this afternoon.

Fred

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Nov 29, 2012 - 04:13pm PT

No need to wash your car.
It's already raining hard and blowing near Castle Rock. Warm though. High freezing levels forecast for the Sierra.
So PLEASE don't tempt the Weather Gods by waxing your skis.

Sandy was an incredibly precise forcast.

Indeed. I was on Long Island as Sandy approached. The forecast for the big hook to the left was on Friday morning. Sandy's eye hit on Monday night within a few dozen miles of the forecast. Tidal surge and wind strength/direction forecasts were also spot on. A surprisingly reliable forecast for such an unusual storm.