Check out this animated graphic of the Sierra Nevada snowpack. Usually, by this time of year, the snow would be mostly gone. It is still here. To play the animation, you have to hit “stop” and then hit “play” again.

 
Here is the same graphic for 2006-2007 winter, which had almost no snow on June 1st:

 

I have recently become enthralled by a new social network called iNaturalist. It is a part crowd-sourced science and part wikipedia field guide. Here are my observations:

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