Global Warming Update: California Tells Skiers to Stay Home, Too Much Snow
By Breitbart. Ski and snowboard fans may have to make plans to stay inside over the Presidents Day three-day weekend instead of taking to the slopes as state officials warn there is too much snow to be cleared making mountain roads dangerous.
Mammoth Mountain, a popular ski resort, is just 5 inches short of 30-year snowfall record for February. . .
⚠️ Current view along EB I80 just before Applegate: traffic at a complete standstill. Please stay home and avoid traveling to the Sierra unless you absolutely have to. ❄️ ❄️ pic.twitter.com/G30h1C2N6T
— Placer Sheriff (@PlacerSheriff) February 17, 2019
Weather forecasters are predicting snow storms in northern Arizona this weekend. And in some parts of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, road crews are clearing avalanches that closed highways and doing operations to prevent more slides.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has a white paper on its website that warns the western United States will suffer drought and reduced snowpack, even as strong snowstorms hit in the northwest U.S. and above-normal rainfall measurements in southern California have been recorded so far this year. (Read more from “Global Warming Update: California Tells Skiers to Stay Home, Too Much Snow” HERE)
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California Issues Warning to Avoid Skiing Over Presidents’ Day Weekend Because There’s TOO MUCH Snow to Keep up With Plow Demand on Dangerous Mountain Roads
By Daily Mail. Keen snow sports fans in California and across the West Coast have been ordered to stay home this holiday weekend because ski resorts were taking in too much snow.
Winter weather enveloping California’s mountains for a fourth straight day Friday kept skiers from hitting the slopes at the start of the Presidents’ Day holiday weekend, with snow so deep that plows could not tackle it and cities scrambled to find places to pile it.
Mammoth Mountain was about to break a more than 30-year record for monthly snowfall and skiers and snowboarders should be able to reach the slopes as long as they have chains or snow tires, resort spokesman Justin Romano said. (Read more from “California Issues Warning to Avoid Skiing Over Presidents’ Day Weekend Because There’s TOO MUCH Snow to Keep up With Plow Demand on Dangerous Mountain Roads” HERE)
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