A Foot of Snow up high. Beautiful Sunset on tap for this evening. Sunday morning brings some more rain.

Santa Cruz Boardwalk on a sunny and 75 degree November hump day.

Kirkwood and Squaw reporting up to 10 inches of snow up high, and the Uber Cam shows that it is still falling.  Plenty of folks are gearing up to getting on it for tomorrow morning.  If you are one of them, be careful out there, as this stuff fell light and dry and you will sink right through to the bottom in many places.  Best be skiing on some glacier like substance, as opposed to a granite like substance.  More rain and snow comes over the weekend, so Sunday looks like it could be even better.  For you folks who think skiing includes the use of a loft, then you still have a few weeks to wait, as resorts are only now beginning to assess snow making potential and get things up and running.



Down here on the coast, the sky is about 50 percent clouds.  Just about perfect for getting some pictures of the sky.  And continued clearing may set up for one of the better sunsets so far this season.  Hope you find yourself outside, or in view of it between 5:30 and 6:30 tonight.  Saturday morning will be decent, if very cold.  Along the coast we could even seen a few locales dip into the high 30s.  Frost advisories are out for valleys in Marin and Monterey.  The morning sky should break nice and blue.  But another system is on its way and clouds will be present by evening, and more rain comes over night.  This second storm looks a bit lighter in precipitation than last nights.  Still, another good sprinkle should occur, and things begin to clear late in the day Sunday.  Monday should be nice (and still chilly).  And that could last through mid week or beyond.

The sky was on fire in front of the approaching storm.  It is sunset season, baby.

Next week's storm keeps showing up uncertain.  It could stay off the coast and drive its way toward Mexico, or it could shift inland as far north as Marin, and drench the coast, and dump snow in the Sierra.  Or, it could do something in between, such as just drag down the coast, drop rain and bring cold.  It would be a bummer to get a lot here, but not in them hills.  More on this one as we progress through the week.  Just another thing to note as of this mornings.  Models are beginning to suggest continued toughing near the coast, with the high shifting west.  That would give us continued turbulent weather, and halt any warming.  It is possible that this storminess could continue past next week.  Interesting, to say the least.