[pct-l] Snow depth telemetry stations for CA, OR, WA

[MarkWright at AboveCalifornia.com (Mark Wright)]

Try the California Department of Water Resources. Their query system  
isn't exactly user friendly, unless you know the id for the station you  
want, but it has lots of info. On the link below you can check out the  
"	Map of stations" link (at the bottom of the page) enter a partial  
name (like "crabtree" or "tuolumne") and it will give you the station  
id. Hit back and enter the station id ("tum" for Tuolumne Meadows or  
"cbt" for Crabtree Meadows for example) and you'll get a map with the  
surrounding stations. Different stations have different data, but they  
generally have temperature and snow-water content. Some have snow depth  
(labeled as "snow dp").
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/queryTools.html

The data should be updated hourly, but sometimes it's not. Below is a  
link for the Crabtree Meadow station. If you click the sensor link at  
the top of the data table it will give you a 24 hour graph for that  
sensor.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?CBT

If you have trouble with the user interface you can go to my web site (  
http://www.AboveCalifornia.com ) and look up a map. We don't have  
complete map coverage, but we do have much of the sierra including all  
of the JMT, though nothing north of Mono Lake except on the coast.  
Check out the "Coverage Map" link. (Send me a fat check and we'll add  
map coverage for all of Ca, Or, and Wa ;-) In the weather section of  
the map pages at bottom left there will be "Local Weather Stations"  
links. These links pop open a window with the California Department of  
Water Resources Web site and shows the current weather station data  
(same page as the second link above).

Looks like Crabtree Meadow had 84 inches of snow and a temp of 35F as  
of about 11am today. Seems like most stations don't have data past  
about 11am today. It's usually more up to date than that.


Mark

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On Jan 15, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Deems wrote:

> I know I've seen stations in the alpine areas of the John Muir  
> Wilderness, but I don't see them on these lists.