[pct-l] Sierra Storms (time of day?)

[Gary Wright]

On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Eric Payne wrote:

> For thru-hiking season in June, I've read before that storms in the  
> Sierra are predictable.  Is this true, and in what way?  Are they  
> typically afternoon thunderstorms and nothing at night?   Does snow  
> creep in at night often?

When I hiked in 2004, the clouds started building by 11:00 and there  
showers and thunderstorms in the mid to late afternoon.  Each day the  
storms came earlier, probably because the overall weather situation  
was warming up.  It became a bit tricky to get over passes when the  
snow was right and the storms were absent.

I had light snow in 2004 and 2007 in the Sierra with temperatures in  
the low twenties on several nights, perhaps high teens.

Radar