Still Fascinated By Extreme California, Snow And Rain And Storms With Video

Bear Mountain Ski Patrol in California took this
recent photo of a ski lift hopelessly
buried in this winter's epic snow. 

 We all know California has been pummeled by extreme snow and rain this year.

It has gone on and on. A couple more atmospheric rivers, one about 10 days ago, the other a week ago, unleashed more often catastrophic flooding.

The atmospheric rivers dumped and are dumping heavy rains on areas covered by deep snow from a previous series of blizzards. 

This has made the images coming out of California even more wild than they've been. Lowlands are under water as the snow melt and the rain have combined to overflow rivers and bash down levees. 

The rain in the heavy snow zones is adding weight to roofs, collapsing them. Water has nowhere to go between walls of snow lining streets and roads. So the water just gets deeper and deeper on these roads. 

The bad weather has spawned supercell thunderstorms on two consecutive days near Fresno that rival some of the most intense springtime tornadic storms you'd see in Oklahoma in May.  One tornado touched down not far from Yosemite National Park. 

Yosemite has just barely partly reopened, but there's no word on when the famed national park will entirely reopen.  

More storminess is scheduled to affect mostly central and southern California during the first half of this week. Another round of flooding, damaging winds and heavy mountain snows will hit again. Then it looks like they might get a short break.  But more storms and mountain snows seem likely later this month in California. 

Some of the scenes in this video from the infamous Donner Pass are just astounding.  Click on this link or watch below:

Tahoe Mountain Life shows us what it's like near Lake Tahoe when there's deep snow a windy atmospheric river brings a bunch of rain to the mix. Not necessarily pretty. And soon enough it changed back to snow. Click on this link or see image:

Tahoe Mountain Life really is a great YouTube channel, worth subscripting to, especially with the extreme weather up there this year. Another installation from this channel features a bear struggling in the deep snow, and rain fall on deep snow. Then more snow. Click on this link or view below if you see image: 

Here's what happened in South Lake Tahoe last week when a warm atmospheric river hit a town buried in deep, deep snow. Click on the link or view if you see the image below: 

Driving down a street during a break in the weather in Mammoth Lakes. Narrator says about 8:25 into the video that the street he's driving down is normally two lanes, with a sidewalk and bike lane;

Click on this link to view, or click on image below to view:

Also in Mammoth Lakes, a contractor walks us through a snowy day dealing with structural issues and roof collapses due to the, um, mammoth amount of snow: Click on this link to view or if you see the image below, check that out: 

There was even a tornado not far from Yosemite National Park: Again, click on this link or view on image below if you see it: