Originally Posted By: Steve C

ChrisSD's observations tend to validate the CDEC temperature readings.

I agree!

Originally Posted By: Steve C

I would trust those while snow depth measurement requires a little more high-tech hocus-pocus.

Do you know how that is measured?

Originally Posted By: Steve C

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....maybe we should approach CDEC and see if they might have more influence.

It would be heavily used, no doubt and very helpful. I wonder if anyone here has any contacts at CDEC? I wonder if the discrepancy we've discovered is the norm.