Remember “The Blob?”
No? It was the ultra-cheesy 1958 Horror film in which an intergalactic “blob” terrorizes a small town, growing larger as it consumes…Well, it was before my time, but it was the very thing I thought of reading the weather-news in Mammoth this morning.
Since the beginning of the New Year, a massive-high pressure ridge (our blob) has been blocking some much-needed precipitation from reaching the poor Eastern Sierra.
But, this pest has begun breaking down, and just in time to beef up an already strong spring skiing season in Mammoth.
“Good riddance to that awful block!” (Did he mean to say, blob?) Wrote weather forecaster Howard Sheckter. “Although the Weather Weenies across the eastern United States have loved every minute of it … that block has been a problem for most of California.”
We really do live in a small, interconnected world. Europe has been slammed by one of the hardest winters in one hundred years in direct connection with the weather abroad. “Now that it’s falling apart, the door will open soon,” Sheckter said. “Eventually, the Eastern Pacific will open up.”
“We could get a real storm between the first of April and mid-April,” he said. “I would not be surprised to get a three-foot dump. Now, I’m not forecasting a three-foot dump. I’m just saying, I would not be surprised. That could move us up to 80 percent to 90 percent of normal.”
And again Mammoth lovers, although Mammoth is in step with the Sierras weather pattern as a whole, it has maintained a better snow season. More snow in the next month, and a longer ski season? Yes please.
Cheers from the Mammoth RBO Team!
(Source: Sierra Wave)
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