That's interesting - nice to see that my observations weren't totally wrong. I was kinda wondering if the CDEC weather station had an incorrect reading (it appears the snow depth sensor has been stuck for months), or if the forecasts were that far off.
ChrisSD's observations tend to validate the CDEC temperature readings. I would trust those while snow depth measurement requires a little more high-tech hocus-pocus.
All of this brings up the idea that a temperature and maybe a wind sensor at the summit hut would be a very helpful and heavily used station. I once talked with SEKI people about it, and got the opinion that a weather station would be "just more junk on the summit hut." After listening to another ranger's negative views on SPOT and wilderness experiences, I'm wondering if it wasn't the same guy.
...maybe we should approach CDEC and see if they might have more influence.
