More than 8 feet of snow still on the ground – In June! – In California!

7 Jun 2017 – USA Today jokingly calls it “California’s endless winter.” However, with the lowest sunspot count in a hundred years, I don’t find the idea of an “endless winter” all that funny. That’s because I think we’re headed into a little ice age.

“Many mountains in the Rockies, Sierra and Cascades are packed with at least 8 feet of snow,” the article continues.

Did you notice the words “at least”? When you study this image from the National Weather Service, you will see that some areas still have MORE than 8 feet (2.44m) of snow on the ground.

USA Today calls it “a dream summer for skiers and snowboarders.” I fear it could mark the beginning of a nightmare.

California’s Mammoth Mountain ski area is enjoying its “best spring conditions in decades … and will be operating DAILY into August,” the resort brags on its website. This will be one of the ski area’s “longest seasons in history.”

Mammoth Mountain is not the only ski area in California that will remain open this summer. Squaw Valley ski resort says it too will be open all summer. See Tahoe Glacier Making a Comeback?

“The snowpack throughout the Sierra rivals, and in places exceeds, records set during the massive winter of 1982-83,” USA Today continues.

I look at that statement as a subtle way of downplaying the full import of the words.

If the snowpack “exceeds” previous records, wouldn’t that mean we’re talking about record snowfall?

Get a few years if record snowfall, and you have the makings of an ice age.

It doesn’t have to be colder, mind you, just more snowfall. They don’t call it a cold age, they call it an ice age.

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June 7, 2017 at 02:14PM