Category: Weather
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More Stormy Weather Coming
If you follow us on Twitter you know we twitter the weather each morning and the next days weather each evening. Unfortunately we’ve begun to sound like a stuck record as every day’s forecast for the past week has been for thunderstorms in the afternoon. Unfortunately it’s going to continue for a while. The warm…
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Severe Weather Advisory Issued for Yosemite Area
The National Weather Service has issued a sever weather advisory for the Yosemite area. Thunder, lightning, heavy rain and hail up to 1″ in diameter are expected. “127 AM PDT FRI JUN 5 2009 …THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY… NOCTURNAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER KINGS…WESTERN FRESNO…WESTERN KERN AND SOUTHWESTERN TULARE…
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Last Minute Weather: Looking Good for Memorial Day
If you’ve got all your stuff together and you’re just doing a little last minute preparation on the Internet, here’s this weekends forecast for Yosemite Valley. Looks to be a beautiful one. Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming west southwest between 8 and 11 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a…
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Photo of the Day: Sierra Nevada -Sunset Light Show by HighSierraCowboy
Today’s Photo of the Day is a beautiful shot of lightning from Lookout Mountain in Mariposa looking toward the Central Valley. We saw this storm off to the south of us but it never came our way. Man it was wild looking. Beautiful shot. Nicely done. Photo by HighSierraCowboy.
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Warm Rains Pushing Merced to Brink
Warm rains caused increased snowmelt this weekend pushing the Merced River in Yosemite Valley almost to flood stage. Merced Sun Star: The whirling water forced the evacuation of 71 campsites near the river, according to the National Park Service. There were no injuries reported from the high water or the evacuation. The surging river also…
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Glacier Point Road Opening Tomorrow and Weekend Storms
As far as I’ve heard the Glacier Point road is still set to open tomorrow. The storm that’s expected this weekend is coming up from the south bringing with it warm, wet rain. No new snowfall is expected below 9000 feet so I don’t expect it’ll impact the road opening. This type of storm generally…
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Snow – You Have to See to Believe
I really love the work Steven Bumgardner (@YosemiteSteve if you’re on Twitter) is doing on the Yosemite Nature Notes videos. The most recent title, Snow, is a BEAUTIFUL look at snow in Yosemite. Take a few minutes and watch. It’s GREAT video and it makes you wish you could have been there. By the way,…
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Weird Half Dome
Kim was nice enough to send in this image she noticed on the Yosemite Association webcam of a cloud that appears to be forming off the moisture on the face of Half Dome. Pretty cool and very weird. Thanks for sending that in, Kim.
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Tioga Road Opening Date – Not Anytime Soon
Pam wrote in to ask me the other day, “When am I going to be able to go through Tioga Pass?” Well, not anytime soon. Tioga Pass is closed and, unless there’s some freak warm front and storm that comes through to melt all the snow, will probably be for a while. Traditionally the Park…
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