ENSO in the Similkameeeens

[Hawk]

I have personally experienced many Winters of ENSO in the Silmikameens. From my experience, Winters are still very good and can be quite snowy. Of course there are more times when it rains up there and of course bommy ridging. Instead of it being frozen and cold with hardly any rain at all throughout the coldest periods in winter.
However, during many bommy ridges sitting right over BC, it is still very cold. For example..daily temps may read H -7 L -15, or similar to that.
During atmospheric River events with warm Coastal temperatures, many times it struggles to get above zero with many of the valleys oftentimes staying below zero where ZR is more common.
Furthermore, it only really rains there during the period of the warm front. Once the cold front passes through it almost always switches back to snow.
This is due to the relatively high elevations of the interior plateau. With many of the higher valleys sitting around the 2500 ft to 3500 foot mark.
Additionally, many of the mountain peaks have their best snow seasons due to the atmospheric Rivers continuously pounding the coast. The mountain peaks sitting at 5000 to 5500 ft benefit greatly with this additional moisture.

If anybody has anything else to add here on this topic that would be greatly appreciated. I would like some additional insight and knowledge.

Hopefully we can score some snow on the coast, but I always have a backup plan in case I need my snow fix for the winter

[Skooks]

I have personally experienced many Winters of ENSO in the Silmikameens. From my experience, Winters are still very good and can be quite snowy. Of course there are more times when it rains up there and of course bommy ridging. Instead of it being frozen and cold with hardly any rain at all throughout the coldest periods in winter.
However, during many bommy ridges sitting right over BC, it is still very cold. For example..daily temps may read H -7 L -15, or similar to that.
During atmospheric River events with warm Coastal temperatures, many times it struggles to get above zero with many of the valleys oftentimes staying below zero where ZR is more common.
Furthermore, it only really rains there during the period of the warm front. Once the cold front passes through it almost always switches back to snow.
This is due to the relatively high elevations of the interior plateau. With many of the higher valleys sitting around the 2500 ft to 3500 foot mark.
Additionally, many of the mountain peaks have their best snow seasons due to the atmospheric Rivers continuously pounding the coast. The mountain peaks sitting at 5000 to 5500 ft benefit greatly with this additional moisture.

If anybody has anything else to add here on this topic that would be greatly appreciated. I would like some additional insight and knowledge.

Hopefully we can score some snow on the coast, but I always have a backup plan in case I need my snow fix for the winter

[Glacier]

Similkameens get lots of snow because of spill over, although it really drops off as you move east of Princeton.

Here's a quick and dirty map to show you that anyone who lives inside the area outlined in red is a stupid moron who gets p*ss poor snow. Too much rain-shadow for good snowfall.

pisspoorsnow.png

[SouthSardiswx]

Similkameens get lots of snow because of spill over, although it really drops off as you move east of Princeton.

Here's a quick and dirty map to show you that anyone who lives inside the area outlined in red is a stupid moron who gets p*ss poor snow. Too much rain-shadow for good snowfall.

pisspoorsnow.png

l'll be sure not to retire to the areas outlined in red Glace, any suggestions on what do while visiting in the Shitzmilkameenzz l heard it snows feetzzzz there Glace.

[Hawk]

Similkameens get lots of snow because of spill over, although it really drops off as you move east of Princeton.

Here's a quick and dirty map to show you that anyone who lives inside the area outlined in red is a stupid moron who gets p*ss poor snow. Too much rain-shadow for good snowfall.

pisspoorsnow.png

But thats also why lots of people move to these areas..due to light snowfall rates in winter. Merritt is a pretty dry bowl, just as those other towns to the NW are. Desert like, but colder

[Hawk]

Similkameens get lots of snow because of spill over, although it really drops off as you move east of Princeton.

Here's a quick and dirty map to show you that anyone who lives inside the area outlined in red is a stupid moron who gets p*ss poor snow. Too much rain-shadow for good snowfall.

pisspoorsnow.png

I visit north of Princeton in a bit of an upslope/summit of the valley area which seems to increase the snowfall slightly at times. A good pumbling does occur quite often though. Like the 22inches within 24 hours last December..or was it 2021?

[Hawk]

Well as it turned out it was a fairly mild and dry winter very low snow packs and not many snow falls at all actually. Here's looking forward to the winter coming up

[Hawk]

Update: Our 2024/25 winter (Supposed to be LN..but textbook EN so far,) has already produced at least 2x ZR events. Expected, sadly

[Hawk]

March 2025 update:
A sad winter in the Similks buttees. Decent snowpack considering how dry it was, but Winter has ended very early here. The creeks and lakes will be suffering due to low snowpacks, again. Expect low creek runoffs this spring, and the triploid Trouts will struggle to spawn again!!

[Glacier]

March 2025 update:
A sad winter in the Similks buttees. Decent snowpack considering how dry it was, but Winter has ended very early here. The creeks and lakes will be suffering due to low snowpacks, again. Expect low creek runoffs this spring, and the triploid Trouts will struggle to spawn again!!

I was talking to a guy who runs off of pelton wheel. He's running in diesel generation right now for part of the day because the water is so low he can only run the hydro generator for 15 hours per day before the reservoir runs dry. It has never been like this before except for last year. Probably the logged last year above his place is a contributing factor, but the lack of snow is also a major factor.