[pct-l] snow pack

["Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>]

Last year someone posted the link to the Western U. S. Quick Look site:

	http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/quiklook/westql.shtml

this site has the snow water equivalent of the snow pack(I assume that the
snow is twice as deep as the swe), The elevation of the snow, and the
change in the snow pack for the western United States.
combining the first two parameters you can figure exactly how deep the snow
is at what elevation.  The maps are usually updated every Friday.  The
disadvantage is that the images come from satellites and the cloud cover
sometimes interferes.  

When the sky is clear you can definitely pick out whether there is snow and
how deep in the Lagunas, San jacintos, San Grigorios, and San Gabriel
Mountains.  Just get a map of California and register those bays and
indentations along the California Coastline as reference points, and you
can pick up San Jacinto Mountains as a island of red(or other color) out
there in the desert.

There are a lot of other sites that give percentage of normal and actual
depth figures, but they seem to all self destruct after the first of March.

Goforth
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