Storms in the Sierra coming this week?

[AlmostThere]

Just got back from Mineral King yesterday. (working on a TR...)

It was a little rainy, lots of clouds milling about spitting and pondering and spitting some more. I took rain pants/jacket and layers and was fine... night temps didn't even get down to freezing and we were above 10k two of three nights. But we saw a lot of rain going on in the distance, snow on Whitney and other high places in enough quantity to be visible across the miles, and Sunday night we had a long, awesome lightening show (in the clouds, didn't see strikes) followed by a shower of graupel as we were making ready to pack up. It spat graupel on us as we ascended Franklin Pass and there were patches of it lingering here and there....

A group of guys coming up the other side commented on the hail. I told them no, it's snow. And there will probably be more of it. The top of the pass was quite chilly and the clouds were gathering as they had done each of the four days we were out.

I wore rain pants while hiking for the first time in a long time in the ongoing drizzle on Saturday afternoon.... It was just enough weather to make it interesting, but it was also a little scary, as we were shooting pretty high over Sawtooth and Franklin passes and the clouds were constantly on the move, not at all predictable. There was a guy hunkered down in a tiny tent at Columbine Lake - ten minutes after we passed him the rain stopped - for us. If he had kept walking just a little farther....

[sierramel]

Here's another webcam: mammothmountain.com
Temp this morning at my house at 7,000 feet was 31. The White Mountains across the valley are totally buried, the Glass Mountains across the valley are buried. I was up in town yesterday at 8,000 and the Sherwins had snow down to about 9,000, and it was snowing and blowing grauple.
I hate to think that we got enoungh snow higher up that even when the temps temporarily warm again (I hope) that the snow will remain until we begin to get regular storms later on.
We NEED an Indian Summer. Most of us long-time residents are sick of this sh*t.

[Snow Nymph]

I will have to change my plans for the weekend.

We had to bail on a 16 day trip mid Sept a few years ago. Great weather the first 7 days, then we got an 8 day resupply delivered. It dumped 5" snow on us that night. We hung out for a day, tried to move on, then bailed the 3rd day.