[pct-l] Sierra and SoCal snow comparisons

[Weathercarrot -]

I've noticed over the years that finding snow-pack correlations between the southern high Sierra and southern CA (San Jacinto, San Gorgonio and Baldy/Baden Powell areas)
is hit and miss at best and perhaps only half the years can you make a somewhat meaningful comparison.  Some examples - 2005 and 2006 will very similar in the Sierra,
but very different in SoCal, where there was epic snow-pack in 2005, but relatively close to average in 2006. Then in 2007, near record low numbers in both regions.  In 2012,
the Sierra again had close to record low snow-pack, but the spring storms in SoCal brought the percentage of normal higher than the Sierra (but still low). Overall, I'd say the 
two regions are removed enough from each other to sometimes experience very different storm track patterns (2006), but close enough in other years to be similar (2005, 2007).

wc

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<< About the only vague conclusion one can reach is to assume that if the
snowpack shown on the Sierra-South chart is heavy or light, for example,
maybe the snowpack in the mountains of S. Cal. will similarly be heavy or
light. Good luck with that. >>

Steel-Eye