[pct-l] Snow Next Year

[steve_peterson at sbcglobal.net (Steve Peterson)]

I suppose anyone that's serious about doing a thru-hike this year is pretty much 
committed and isn't seriously thinking of delaying until next year because of 
snow levels, but on the off chance that someone is, here's what the Sierra snow 
records have to say:

With one exception, every heavy snow year since 1975 has been followed by a year 
in which the snow was "normal" or less, where "normal" is defined as the Upper 
Tyndall sensor reading zero by mid-June or earlier. Here's the data:

1978 7/23
1979 6/8

1980 7/18
1981 5/14

1982 6/26
1983 7/28
1984 6/8

1993 6/29
1994 6/4

1995 7/10
1996 6/11

1998 7/19
1999 6/18

(It could be argued that 1997 and 1999 were heavy snow years since the "zero 
day" for the sensor was 6/18. That would make two cases where a heavy year was 
followed by a second, and in the case of 1997, a third heavy year.)

--Steve