Winter is about to Return to Incline Village. Weather Update 2/10/2011
Feb. 10 2011
Winter is about to return to Incline Village folks.!!!
But not before one more balmy weekend. The high pressure that's been keeping our weather unseasonably warm for most of this year is breaking down and preparing to move east. It will get a nudge from a Gulf of Alaska storm that will pass to our north on Sunday, bringing cooler temperatures but no precipitation to the Tahoe Basin. Until then, we'll see temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above normal for mid-February.
Then, by Monday night, we should see the leading edge of our first big winter storm since New Years Week. Snow levels are likely to start out around or above 5000 feet and then drop as the cold front moves through on Tuesday. Another storm will come right behind, likely arriving by Thursday. These storms won't be especially wet, but cold temperatures will mean a high snow-to-water ratio, and that should mean several feet of new snow by Presidents Day Weekend.
A plume of moisture over the Pacific is also moving our way and could become entrained in the second storm and others to follow. Once the momentum shifts we should be in for more storms, back to a typical mid-winter weather pattern.
Check with me, Tim Lampe at 775 745 9730 for updates as the pattern begins to change.
Also, you can log on to my web-site for real time weather video cam right at Ski Beach, Incline Village Nevada
http://lamperealestate.com.realproserver.com/Incline-Village-Ski-Beach-Webcam
Temperature forecasts:
Tahoe City:
Thursday 43
Friday 45
Saturday 49
Sunday 45
At 7000 feet:
Thursday 40
Friday 42
Saturday 44
Sunday 38
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MONTHLY WEATHER ALMANAC FOR FEBRUARY
Low: 0 on Feb. 2
Average temp: 26.6
Departure from norm: -3.8
Precipitation: .04
Normal precip for the entire month: 5.30
Percent of normal for the month: 1%
Total snowfall: trace
Low: 4 on Feb. 2
Average temp: 31.9
Departure from norm: 2.9
Precipitation (water content): 0
Normal precip for the month: 4.83 inches
Percent of normal for the entire month: 0 %
Total snowfall: 0