I live around Puget Sound and just drove down to the Bay Area for a few days. I've driven down I-5 through the Siskiyou's several hundred times over the last 20 years driving a truck. Its been about 8 years or so since I did it last. Where is the fucking snow on Shasta ? Mt. Shasta is 14,179 feet tall. Where is the snow ? It freaked me out. No snow in January ? WTF ? Its brown all the way to the top with tiny streaks of white in places like tiny ribbons.
Its less than 300' shorter than Mt. Rainier. Yet if there was no snow on Rainier in January people would freak the fuck out.
Yesterday it was 69* on Mt. Rainier.
Yesterday was still the middle of winter.