Winter’s just around the Truckee corner
The Aspens are almost finished shedding their summer green coats in exchange for autumns reds and oranges. Plants and trees need to be bound for snow and storms. Irrigation needs to be turned off, water turned off to the house and all water purged. Don’t forget the antifreeze for the drains.
La Niña seems to be the prediction for this winter. Historically, La Niña is the opposite of El Niño which brings greater than average cold and precipitation. Holding true to its El Niño description, last winter brought 155% of normal snowfall along with colder temperatures which seemed to last for a year and a half.
Interestingly, these weather changes are brought about simply by ocean temperatures off the western shore of south America, cooling for El Niño or, warming for La Niña. Curious that ocean temperatures, thousands of miles from the Sierras, could affect us so much. The climatologists are afraid to predict what this winters weather is going bring. It seems about 50/50 warm or cold. That’s pretty safe. Could that fear be brought about by too many bum predictions? By the way, this mornings temperature in Truckee tipped the scale at sweltering 15 degrees. Brrrrr!
It’s time to get the skis out, grab a Bud, go out to the garage, turn on the Dead and start sharpening and waxing. It won’t be long.
Broker Owner
Schaller Family Realtors
Dickson Realty Truckee
