[pct-l] Sierra Storms (time of day?)

[Donna Saufley]

Ditto to everything you've said below in '06, though we did not have any
snow flurries in June or July.  One night around July 21st it rained all
through the night in Tuolumne Meadows.

L-Rod

-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Gary Wright
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:20 PM
To: Eric Payne
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Sierra Storms (time of day?)


On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Eric Payne wrote:

> For thru-hiking season in June, I've read before that storms in the  
> Sierra are predictable.  Is this true, and in what way?  Are they  
> typically afternoon thunderstorms and nothing at night?   Does snow  
> creep in at night often?

When I hiked in 2004, the clouds started building by 11:00 and there  
showers and thunderstorms in the mid to late afternoon.  Each day the  
storms came earlier, probably because the overall weather situation  
was warming up.  It became a bit tricky to get over passes when the  
snow was right and the storms were absent.

I had light snow in 2004 and 2007 in the Sierra with temperatures in  
the low twenties on several nights, perhaps high teens.

Radar


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