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

[jeff.singewald at comcast.net]

In 2006 I left KM earlier then most (June 6th) and I had spectacular weather!  From KM north, the only percipitation we had was a brief afternoon thunderstorm while at VVR and a day of white-out conditions of rain, sleet and snow between Thousand Island Lake and Donahue Pass.  Fortunately, the storm broke just before we crested the pass.

Even with these glorious conditions it still got down into the single digit and teens at night above 10K.  We made camp on a couple of nights above 10K (before Pinchot, before Mather) in order to summit at optimal snow conditions and it was mighty cold up there!

Elevator

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Donna Saufley" <dsaufley at sprynet.com> 

> 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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