The inexorable shift in seasons is upon us. For snow sliders, spring is no fool’s gold. More predictable snowpacks, the ability to travel on fast refreeze in the early hours and top out, with perfect timing, for a multi-thousand foot descent of corn snow make spring, perhaps, the best time of year for making turns. Thus, it is time for a SWE update.
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From the THR Dept. of Atmospheric Rivers… A wee bit into March and the reality that our pal in Truckee gets to rev his snowblower as the latest atmospheric river moisturizes the Sierra Nevada means it’s time for a SWE update.
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Rolling into the heart of winter SWE totals for the basins out West show improvement, but fingers are crossed for Mother Nature’s magic touch through February.
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The tides are rising in the West. Last week, post-drive across the sagebrush sea and pre-drive out to the Rockies, on December 20th, we posted a Winter Solstice SWE (snow water equivalent) survey. As every reader who lives in or frequents the West knows, the theme has been low tide.
However, the models have proven correct, and the powers have tilted SWE in our favor.
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