Has low-elevation Cascade snowpack been declining?

Awesome analysis Amar, thanks for all your hard work (please get some sleep!).

I'm not a old-timer nor long time PNW skier (sorry if I gave that impression). I started skiing here ~10 years ago, in the midst of the "golden age" and thus my perception of declining low elevation snow pack makes sense in that context. Your analysis is fairly conclusive, but it does stand out to me that the cumulative and 30 year avgs are pretty decidedly downward trending in your plots (esp for Longmire and snoq pass). So although it most certainly can be said that our recent low elevation snowpack is not nearly as "bad" as we are perceiving it to be, can it not be said that the low elevation snowpack is declining when using a broad time scale (albeit with some recent improvement due to the "golden age" period)?

Again, nice work! Cheers

thanks for an informative and interesting read!

Thank you for sharing!

Glad we got to ski together today...loved the post. My problem is I am way too old I did a lot of skiing in the "Golden Years"......LOL. A lot of ghost and hat skiing back then.

Thanks for taking the time to do this Amar. There is a lot to chew on here.

great info.

As a question that is not scientific...but maybe somewhat in the same direction....

Does anybody have the historic opening and closing dates of skiing at Snoqualmie Pass?