Weather - Bear Valley Wiki

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Status: Weather Data is UP.
Access Bear Valley Wiki Weather on your cellphone: www.ourbv.com/weather/index.wml.
Updated Sun Jan 6: Add your Jan 5 2008 storm pics or video to this PikiWiki page ... (open page, click on Edit).

NOAA/NWS/NRL Satellite and Radar Imagery

ATTN: CW4253 is Bear Valley. Always check time stamp, note Zulu/UTC time is 8 hours ahead of PST (F5 key ensures latest image):

GOES IR West Sat Image

GOES WaterVapor West Sat Image

Sierra Nevada Visible Sat (NRL)

Eastern Pac Water Vapor (NRL)

Eastern Pac IR/WV/LowCloud (NRL)

Live Weather Data from Bear Valley

Real Time weather data updated every 3 seconds from a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station, located on Quaking Aspen Road, Bear Valley. Click on the Webcam button to see the snow gauge. Note: The rain gauge is accurate only above freezing temps and that melting snow (in the rain bucket) will show up as rainfall. For snowfall, check out the snow gauge on Webcams, which has a red line for every foot. The 10' mark is at the top of the '10' and the other depths are just below their numbers.
NOTE: for Bear Valley residents, note that the above Real Time weather page gives you three temperature indications from three separate temperature sensors:

Temperature (left most gauge): located in an aspirated radiation shield in the clear, for air temps warmed by sun (if any).
Shade: located in shade underneath a gazebo, for air temps in the shade. FIXED.
Crawlspace: located in the homes crawlspace, about 2 feet above the dirt, near the water pipes.

Weather Pages Updated every ten minutes automatically. Here you can find all the details you want about current weather conditions including forecast, radar images, and detailed weather data from the Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station. The weather station is also feeding live data into NOAA's Mesonet network. You can also find NOAA reporting this weather station at

Bear Valley CW4253 NOAAand if you look in the Bear Valley vicinity of this

NOAA surface observation map you'll find the Bear Valley weather station there as well.

Weather Forecast Point forecast from NOAA

Bear Valley Ski Resort hourly conditions as reported from weather instruments on the Mountain at Bear Valley Ski Resort. Useful for snowfall rate in the winter, though data updated hourly, at best... it's not unusual for this to be down for days at a time, esp during the winter when it's useful. Check

here for a great page on bearvalley.com about their weather instrumentation.

Ebbetts Pass (Hwy 4) 8700' elevation weather

weather
Snow Depth at

Bloods Creek.

Caltrans Hwy 4 Conditions Check here before heading up Highway 4.

Weather Data from NOAA, NWS, misc

Stormpulse Radar

Wunderground weather... real time data coming from this Bear Valley Wiki weather station.

SNOW-FORECAST.com 0-3 days out most accurate forecast of snow vs rain ... see other snow-forecast links below
Official NWS Forecast for

Bear Valley. More pinpointed forecast than in Detailed Weather Data link up above.

Intellicast radar analysis. Integrates snow level vs precip... take a look.

Sierra Avalanche Center report, from Truckee Ranger Station.

Short term and current conditions from Sacramento office.

24 hr Jetstream forecast. Useful to see if it's a warm or cold storm.

Satellite Goodies:

24 hour Sat loop of Eastern Pacific, excellent view on what's coming our way. More excellent analysis products can be found at College of Dupage WX site.
Hawaii to West Coast IR Loop. Thanks to Dweeb Report for this one.
Sacramento Sat image. Still or animated. Nice.
NOAA Sat site. Go here for ALL of it.
GOES West site... all kinds of still and loops.

New NOAA Ridge Radar snaps (really improved graphics):

Reno NV Ridge Radar Display, more accurate rain/snow echoes than the Sac link below.
Sacramento CA Ridge Radar Display, check this before hitting the road to/from the Bay area. Pretty much covers SF Bay area to Bear Valley.
San Francisco Ridge Radar Display, sort of redundant with the Sac radar.
Northern Cal Nexrad hi res radar, nice animation.

Current graphics for NOAA national

precipitation forecast and

fronts/baro pressure.

Dweeb Report nice collection of weather links and analysis from a real estate agent (yeah, but this one actually knows something about weather:) over at Mammoth.
Bear Valley forecast... not technical, but better than reading NWS.
Ed Berry's blog, a very technical weather forecast discussion. Mentioned on the Dweeb report too. If you think you understand climate processes, read this blog and be humbled. Update: Ed has stopped updating his blog as he seems to have taken other commitments on. Too bad for us.

Probability of SNOW > 4" in next

24 hours and in next

48 hours.

Sierra Crest (near Lake Tahoe) at 8700 feet, hourly weather data.

Squaw Valley (High Camp) at 8200 Ft, hourly weather data.

Reno Atmosphere wx data vs altitude, find altitude of freezing temps. Click Text for easier reading.

Forecast

discussion from NOAA forecasters in NWS Sacramento. The snow-forecast.com site is now usually more accurate (for snow levels/amount) than the NWS itself.
Forecast

discussion from NOAA NWS Reno, NV
Forecast

discussion from NOAA NWS San Francisco

Climate Prediction Center from NOAA - National Weather Service - Long range forecasts

Forecast from snow-forecast.com and

Snowfall forecast from same. Hit the play button to see the rollout of snow events from today to 3 days from now. The site used to have a red dot for Bear Valley but seem to have lost it, again.

Links

Weather in Saratoga:

http://www.banburys.org/wx/ (add your city here)
Another Saratoga weather site:

Saratoga
Weather in

Angels Camp
Want to learn more about weather... here is one of the

best web sites on all things weather.

NRL satellite images courtesy of

Naval Research Lab in Monterey, CA. For more images and edu-info, see

satellite meteorology.

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2011-07-21 14:55:42 For those of you that might be interested I created a new set of weather pages that are updated every ten minutes by the weather station computer. See weather pages link above. —CharlesRead

2011-07-21 15:28:51 Fantastic, Thanks Charles. —BobRynd

2011-07-23 07:48:54 Very nice, Charles! —KeithWinter

2011-10-04 07:27:11 Just saw on mymotherlode.com that Caltrans will be closing Sonora and Ebbetts Pass today at 5 pm in anticipation of the next few days snow. —SusiLewis

2011-10-04 10:55:05 And so, another winter season begins. A little early this year. —KeithWinter

2011-10-05 11:10:38 wow... it's brisk up there for early Oct... —TonyZuccarino

2011-10-05 13:29:45 brisk, is right. I definitely made my first wood stove fire of the season! This is pretty wet snow- when it is gone it will make the soil less dusty. —SusiLewis

2011-11-15 12:56:10 I cleared out the comments for Winter 2010/2011. We ready for Winter 2011/2012! —KeithWinter

2011-11-15 21:33:05 good going, Keith. Yes...............on to the next season, whatever it may bring. have to deal one way or the other. and observe- gosh it is so much fun to collaborate with you all on the WEATHER! —SusiLewis

2011-11-18 10:28:39 Susi, does your Smokey the Bear ruler have centimeters on it? I think that's all we'll need for this storm —BobRynd

2011-11-18 18:39:42 Bob, I think your are right. This storm will not cause Bear to open early. —EricDavis

2011-11-20 08:26:22 a good 7-8" this morning. I can get out, but may not be able to drive back in to the cabin this time. —SusiLewis

2011-12-07 17:05:45 I wish the weather would give us something to talk about —BobRynd

2011-12-07 17:14:16 I'm with you, Bob. We'd better start getting some storms in here soon or it could end up a bad year, rain/snow-wise... —KeithWinter

2011-12-12 10:32:59 After checking the Dweebs report and NWS discussions, it's not very optimistic that we receive any significant precipataion by Chrsitmas. I think the averages are catching up to us this year. An above average last year is being offset by a below average this year. (sigh!) —BobRynd

2011-12-12 11:08:00 Am I the only person worried that there is no sign of significant snow? Was hoping to have a white christmas. —TinaDuncan

2011-12-13 08:40:59 No your not the only one. Guess we all need to do a little snow dance —CharlesRead

2012-01-12 08:43:21 FINALLY! Looks like next week we'll see a change. looks like multiple day storm starting on Weds nite/ Thurs. next week. —BobRynd

2012-01-21 14:10:15 Charles, nice job on the weather pages... —TonyZuccarino

2012-01-23 09:26:43 Thanks Tony but credit really goes to Ken True and Saratoga-Weather.org. His templates with contributions from others on the internet were used to build the pages. —CharlesRead