Rain Shadow in Full Effect for Carson Range

We have a storm just off the coast. However, we are seeing another strong rain shadow effect for the Carson Range. The precip is hitting the Sierra and not lifting over the mountains. When that happens, the precip moves down the Sierra leaving small amounts of behind.

As you can clearly see by the forecast for tomorrow (below), there is plenty of moisture with this storm but not enough energy to get up and over the Sierra. Also, the deep freeze blocking high, forecast earlier in the week never materialized, so these storms are moving through rather quickly.

Monday's storm looks like more of the same. The one piece of good news, these storms are nowhere near as warm as we thought they would be. What precip does come to Mt. Rose will be all snow.

Then the models diverge. The ECMWF is predicting a very snowy Christmas and New Years. The GFS is predicting no more precip through the end of the year. We always favor the ECMWF, but this has been a very weird year with multiple storms producing 10+ inches of rain in Northern California and .2 inches in the Carson Range.

So between now and Tuesday, we are predicing 6-8 inches of snow for Mt. Rose. After that, it is anybodies guess.

Stay Tuned ...