Here are all those charts updated and collated for you…
The weekly depths:
Spencers Creek snow depths for 2014, from Snowy Hydro
Deep Creek snow depths for 2014, from Snowy Hydro
Three Mile Dam snow depths for 2014, from Snowy Hydro
Spencers Creek weekly snow depth gain and loss
The updated full records:
Snowy Hydro Australian snow depth records
Spencers Creek snow depth record
Spencers Creek snow depth anomalies
The season peak and integral depth:
Spencers Creek peak snow depth trend
Spencers Creek peak snow depth timing
Spencers Creek integral snow depth trend
And the future:
Spencers Creek snow depth future
The correlations:
Spencers Creek peak snow depth correlations — 2014 in bold
The dumps:
When the dumps happen
And all the snow systems:
Fall #1: 14-16 June
After a near-record warm May, this was the rather late season starter for NSW (Victoria dipped). The resorts claimed up to 30 cm snowfall.
My call: Made from 19 days out(!!); event came in a couple of days late; my update missed the isolated 14 June NSW fall.
Fall #2: 23-25 June
This was the big one; up to 1.2 m of aggregate snowfall for a net gain of 88 cm at Spencers Creek, the eleventh-highest weekly gain on record (interpolated Thursday to Thursday gains).
My call: Made from onset-6 days; timing ok; I foreshadowed the possibility of a dump from 4 days out, but didn’t really see the very large fall coming until 22 June (in a separate post).
Fall #3: 28-30 June
A repeat system brought another very substantial fall; at least 50 cm of aggregate snowfall. The week-on-week gain at Spencers Creek was a slightly disappointing 28 cm, probably due to consolidation of the previous week’s dump underneath.
My call: Made from onset-7 days; most unusually the initial timing was about 1.5 days too late (corrected in updates); event scale pretty good.
Fall #4: 9-11 July
Yet another nice fall, aggregating up to about 70 cm counting the wet little pre-event on 5 July.
My call: Made from onset-14 days; call timing 1 day early from 14 days; event scale about right.
Fall #5: 16-18 July
This was a decent fall too, but not of the scale of the previous three. One resort claimed a dubious total snowfall of 50 cm, but the weekly depth gain was a small fraction of that.
My call: Made from onset-8 days; timing good. The pre-event on 14-15 July was not nearly as wet as I expected early on — something of a theme with little wandering lows this season.
Fall #6: 1-2 August
This small snow event delivered a cold and windy 20 cm fall.
My call: Made from 6 days out; timing good; scale good.
Fall #7: 17-18 August
This was an unusual upper-atmosphere system that delivered a surprise 20 cm of very wet snow to higher elevations in NSW.
My call: Completely missed it, expecting rain.
Fall #8: 2-4 September
A traditional, vigorous cold front. Perisher Valley resort claimed 20 cm snowfall off about 30 mm of precipitation, while Falls Creek claimed just 6 cm.
My call: Made from 10 days out; timing good, but overcooked it. Much weaker than expected; called for follow-up fizzled.
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