WTF is with this bleeping weather?

[Angel Dog and Beer]

84 yesterday, a new daily high. It was just downright glorious in the evening. Should be illegal for early March. 

[Homebrewer]

Sportin shorts today for the first time since November. Supposed to hit 80 this weekend.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Hey, @Homebrewer, on your recommendation I went to South Gate Brewery a few weeks ago. Beers and food were really good. There was a group of us waiting for a table, and they were nice enough to serve us all a round while we stood at the entrance. Thanks!

[Homebrewer]

10 minutes ago, Angel Dog and Beer said:

Hey, @Homebrewer, on your recommendation I went to South Gate Brewery a few weeks ago. Beers and food were really good. There was a group of us waiting for a table, and they were nice enough to serve us all a round while we stood at the entrance. Thanks!

You're welcome...glad you tried it. Best, really the only place in Oakhurst, IMO. I've been going there since before they opened as I met the owners one night in Mariposa a few years ago as they were still putting the place together. They have done really well . I've collaborated on a few brew recipes with the brew master , as I do some custom malting and roasting.  

[Tank]

5 hours ago, Blarg said:

I've been driving to work with the top down. I'll need to use sunblock today.

put your shirt on, nature boy.

[Redondo]

It was 90 here on Thursday and 88 yesterday. Time to switch to shorts and hang up the jackets and sweatshirts.

[Blarg]

Our company used to be located on the same building as Warner Animation, in fact he same floor and we had to walk through their department to get to our offices. 

One day there was a Warner Animation artwork sale with in the main lobby. The typical animation stuff and then some more serious work. One piece was two small girls sitting in a field of wildflowers and I asked the artist where this was. He told me it was a trip to the high desert where the flowers were in bloom years ago when the rain season was intense. 

It was a beautiful, almost surreal painting that you would think was some artist conception of a fantasy desert bloom but it was based on pictures he took of his girls playing in the flowers. 

He wanted $3,500 for the painting and to this day I regret not buying it. 

[gotbeer]

Has Lake Tahoe ever looked more beautiful than it does right now?

[Redondo]

Those are great pictures gotbeer

[mrwicked]

yep, gorgeous up there.

i am probably gonna head back up next weekend. and maybe just stay and work from there for a week. with all this snow it's just comically pretty. 

[NJHalo]

One of my favorites from My July trip to Tahoe

[NJHalo]

[NJHalo]

W

[Angel Dog and Beer]

20 hours ago, NJHalo said:

One of my favorites from My July trip to Tahoe

I took that same picture, probably the same vantage point, from last summer...

 

[NJHalo]

Angel Dog and Beer, Is that you in the middle of the picture, taking the shot? 

[Homebrewer]

There have been monster snow blowers (see below) being trucked through town the past few days, so work is beginning on Tioga Pass. From what I understand there are places where they cant reach the bottom of the snowpack with their measuring equipment, so they aren't even sure how deep it is in places. More snow coming up high next week.

[gotbeer]

48 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

There have been monster snow blowers (see below) being trucked through town the past few days, so work is beginning on Tioga Pass. From what I understand there are places where they cant reach the bottom of the snowpack with their measuring equipment, so they aren't even sure how deep it is in places. More snow coming up high next week.

Mr. Plow, meet Plow King.

[Homebrewer]

37 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Mr. Plow, meet Plow King.

Pretty awesome huh? The pictures dont really show just how big they really are, because there's nothing normal size to compare them to. But sitting on top of the transport trucks, they make quite an impression.

[Angel Oracle]

I still remember driving to Tahoe in March 1998, in between Big West Tournament basketball games (Reno).

At the house that I and my ex previously rented for a week a couple of times in South Tahoe, the snow was up to roof level.     

[Angel Dog and Beer]

19 hours ago, NJHalo said:

Angel Dog and Beer, Is that you in the middle of the picture, taking the shot? 

Hmmm...no. I would be wearing my yellow unitard swimsuit that I only wear at the lake. 

[Tank]

boy, today is about as nice a day as you could ask for. wish i was playing golf right now.

[gotbeer]

Wildflowers bloom in California after record drought, in pictures

California Deserts In 'Super Bloom' Thanks To A Wet Winter

 

Edited March 18, 2017 by gotbeer

[NJHalo]

As a followup to my previous post about Tahoe snow, here is the latest pic as the snow starts to melt. There was another truck buried in there too!

[Angel Oracle]

Another atmospheric event for the Sierras this weekend?

Two to four feet of snow are possible at the higher Tahoe elevations.

[Gavin]

http://weatherwest.com/archives/5647

"This warming has resulted from reduced cold water upwelling associated with the Humboldt Current, which has historically been linked to the early development of significant El Niño episodes."

Eat your heart out, AO!