Low Snowpack in the Oregon Cascades, Winter 2023/2024

[@MattCookOregon]

Ok you guys arent as crazy as I claimed. What should I do a video on next?

[@OregonOutdoors1]

A6/P38 plane crashes outside of Christmas Valley.

[@OregonMikeH]

HOW ABOUT A REVIEW OF THE EXTENT OF FOREST FIRE DAMAGES THROUGHOUT OUR STATE AT PRESENT. THANKS MATT

[@MattCookOregon]

@@OregonOutdoors1 Thats a nice idea. Ive wanted to cover the giant radar array there too. All on public land?

[@MattCookOregon]

@@OregonMikeH I covered the Cedar creek fire. But all the fires? Oh wow that would be extensive. If there is time, I like the idea.

[@OregonMikeH]

EPICLY BENEFICIAL TO FAR MORE THAN JUST OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY. IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ONE TO CONSIDER MATT FOR OUR TIMES. I KNOW IT'S A LOT TO BITE OFF BUT MAN, WHAT AN IMPORTANT ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR THE IMMEDIATE AND DISTANT FUTURE FOR ALL! @@MattCookOregon

[@SockGoblin801]

Scientific info is welcome! Welcome back.

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you. More to come. I have a small group of weirdo commenters and wanted to poke them a bit.

[@gr8fullytedicated]

Thank you so much for making the science information in this video so easily digestible. It's super important people understand what's happening.

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you. Unfortunately it makes some of the viewers mad. Oh well can't win em all!

[@gr8fullytedicated]

@@MattCookOregon That says more about them than you, but I get it. Be well.

[@OregonMikeH]

AMEN TO THAT!

[@OregonMikeH]

@@MattCookOregon IT WAS RIGHTEOUS WORK AND NARRATION 100% BUDDY!!

[@BackpackingWithJason]

It’s definitely been a mild winter so far. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Oregon is so beautiful. Cool video Matt

[@MattCookOregon]

It is nice here snow or not. You are a quick commenter! Thank you.

[@suzettecalleja3122]

Glad your back. Your sense of humor had me laughing. I am one of those that appreciate the science. I always enjoy and look forward to your videos. 😊🎉😂

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you. I usually took out funny lines cause they felt so out of place. Thought I would just go for it here and see what happens.

[@Zoomdak]

Very spot on timing to film and release this. Excellent research and well presented!

[@MattCookOregon]

Yeah I think I uploaded it one day before it was gonna be ackward and everyone starts reading news about blizzard warnings.

[@OregonMikeH]

@@MattCookOregon JUST LOOK AT THE EVER ENCROACHING DESERTS. I JUST WATCHED THE BBC PLANET EARTH II. IT WILL SHOW YOU DEVASTATING UNREFUTABLE EVIDENCE OF A CRISES SO ACTIVE, IT FAR EXCEEDS ALL SCIENTIFIC FEARS,

[@seastheday2020]

Love to see your beautiful videos!

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you. I like to make them. Hopefully I get some time to do more this year.

[@prolificnorthwest]

Great video! Good to see you back at it.

[@MattCookOregon]

Sooooo hard to make videos with 2 kids. Trying.

[@prolificnorthwest]

@@MattCookOregon I’ll bet!

[@elflordsjourneys]

Same story down in the Sierras, we were in Bend late Oct and saw that early snow, took a beautiful drive over McKenzie Pass Road and saw lots of snow. Finally getting a little snow now but way behind compared to last year 😢

[@MattCookOregon]

Highway 242 is so cool. I need to get some more videos there.

[@elflordsjourneys]

The whole loop is awesome. 😀

[@paullauer1363]

I live in Bend, and we're missing the snow for sure.

[@MattCookOregon]

Yeah it has been pretty dry. Soon!

[@northcoastoutdoorchannel]

Great video Matt! Really enjoyed how informative this one was, I enjoy science haha. Scary to see the Hoodoo parking lot and surrounding area. It is concerning how little snowpack there is. Looks like the next week should help a bit!

[@MattCookOregon]

Thanks. I rushed to put this out quickly cause I wanted it up before it dumps snow. Even if it dumps were still behind though.

[@Oregontrailblazin]

Thanks Matt !

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you!!!

[@antonioloredo8800]

As always Matt, very good video with good info as well ..

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you very much!

[@leviconnelly79]

Great video! Thanks Matt

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you!

[@JasmineVideoBlogs]

I agree the Pacific Northwest has not gotten a lot of snow so far this season. I was out and about today in Yakima, Washington and it felt like late spring. Oregon has a ton of wonderful things to see! I look forward to watching your outdoor videos. Blessings and wonderful adventures to you and your family.

[@MattCookOregon]

I will be curious to see where we stand soon as winter ends. We got a lot of late snow.

[@wildzenventures]

We’ve been thankful we didn’t buy an annual pass for Hoodoo this year. We’re still praying for snow!

[@MattCookOregon]

Good thinking. With babies I am lucky if I get out more than a couple times. I got both of em in snowboards now so they will be on the mountain soon.

[@brucelayman525]

Oregon and Washington are both experiencing very low precipitation (both rain and snow). Spokane typically gets 44 in. of snow (30-year average), but only about 4 in. so far this year. La Pine, Oregon also very low so far this year. El Nino Southern Oscillation tends to move the jet stream south along with the precipitation. Blocking highs off the coast tend to push moisture south. Trend so far is not good!

[@frankblangeard8865]

According to USGS the Portland area is above averge in precipitation for the water year so far. And the next seven days (at least) are expected to be rainy.

[@MattCookOregon]

Well I spoke too soon we just all got covered! Still a low snow year overall though.

[@stanbyme7874]

Sending snow your way!! Happy New Year..brrr from Salem.

[@MattCookOregon]

It worked! Blizzards everywhere!

[@audiomiragemusic]

Awesome footy! One upside is that it has been a great year for mushrooms. 🍄

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you. I usually tune out of mushroom land when it freezes. It froze in like October. Guess they had a come back?

[@TorrinR-xv2gc]

Just here for the comments

[@MattCookOregon]

Might I interest you in a theory that the giant caldera next to chemult is actually an underground sleeping lizard?

[@f0rtitude]

Looks like the cascades are finally getting lots of snow these past days and rest of week. Something like 8 feet of snow on Mt. Hood!

[@MattCookOregon]

This video was like a rain dance. You're welcome everyone.

[@bertsadventure689]

Nice pics, glad you posted again

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you I am happy to be here. Hopefully the children let me make another video soon.

[@J-Rod358]

Hopefully we'll get more snow next year

[@MattCookOregon]

It's coming. I even see it in the forecast for the coast!

[@RoamingRomanticsWithJR]

Awesome and informative video!! 👍🏻

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you very much!

[@goexplore318]

Hope I am able to use my Timberline ski tickets this year. 😁😃

[@MattCookOregon]

Tickets?! I will take one off your hands.

[@SomeDudeSomewhereOverThere]

haha..."Poor Big Company" ...I need to put that on a shirt

[@MattCookOregon]

Someone please think of the CEOs!

[@OregonMikeH]

@@MattCookOregon I DO, I THINK OF THEM OFTEN WHEN PURCHASING ANYTHING FROM FOOD TO GAS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.

[@frankblangeard8865]

Nice photo of 'Black Butte' at 2:38. A good trivia factoid is that Oregon has 22 Black Buttes. The United States has 146.

[@MattCookOregon]

22 really? Crazy. There is one near cottage Grove that I am interested in. It was part of the bohemia mining operation. Kinda wanna go see if there is anything left.

[@davidtate166]

What is a good snowpack for Oregon.🤔 enough snow melt to go around.

[@MattCookOregon]

Depends on where you are measuring. Enough to go around sounds good to me. Enough to stop the next megafire!

[@haroldnelson3734]

I have a love/hate relationship with the snow living up here in the Cascades of SW Oregon. I love playing in it, but I sure hate shoveling it. It seems like I do wayyyy more shoveling than playing.

[@MattCookOregon]

I could see that if you live in the mountains. I see some get those ride on snow blowers those look fun!

[@petalpdx]

I love the scientific perspective on weather. Climate change is real. Love your videos.

[@MattCookOregon]

Thank you. I hope for more of that. I thought it was pretty basic stuff but even that got some angry viewers haha.

[@DozerbobTV]

In before 2 feet of snow happens in March

[@MattCookOregon]

Gonna need a lot more than 2 feet in the mountains!

[@OregonMikeH]

ABSOUTLY CORRECT MATT! 100%@@MattCookOregon

[@stevenabbott6577]

The Cascades are going to get hammered this weekend and next with low elevation snow

[@MattCookOregon]

True but it would be a lot cooler if they already had snow.

[@AL-T]

Warm and no snow here in Maine also. Science is good, a lot of people must have failed it in school.

[@MattCookOregon]

People are wild. I can't believe I get those comments so thought I would just preemptively say hi.

[@Lowellian1]

“Poor Big Company…” hahaha!😂. MN is also lacking snow, relatives are reporting. Also, they emptied out reservoirs for the salmon, and now there’s no snow pack! Bad news for summer and fire season. 😢

[@MattCookOregon]

I am glad I decided to keep my unscripted lines in there this time. I usually have deleted them cause they seem out of place.

[@dkendrafrancesco7270]

One of the things to add is that this last La Nina stuck around for almost three years, rather than the typical single year. July 2020 - March 2023. The current El Nino began June 2023. NOAA estimates it'll end sometime between April and June 2024. BTW, no need to apologize to science deniers. The rest of us appreciate your information!

[@MattCookOregon]

Thanks for that extra info. I was more just making a joke about some insane comments I get. Looks like I shook the bees nest and got some more!

[@eliastcobb5506]

“Poor big company”😂

[@OregonMikeH]

LOVED THAT TO NO END, ALSO HIS APOLOGY TO POTENTIAL COMMENTERS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING. HA! 2 COOL 4 SCHOOL, GO MAT GO!!

[@MattCookOregon]

I was reacting to my own lines with that one and thought it was funny haha.

[@joshuamoninger2792]

LMFAO... Don't stop with the science stuff! Looks like we're going to get hammered with snow over the next week and even down here in PDX it's going to get COLD! Bring it on... I need some good snowshoeing conditions :)

[@MattCookOregon]

I'm ready for it. It's snowing a lot this week, so global warming is fake right? I love crazy commenters.

[@OregonMikeH]

How refreshing to hear pinpoint accurate narration on such an important topic, if people don't want to confront the inconvenient truth, they can go on playing as Ostriches with their heads in the sand. Your excellent filming, for anyone with open eyes to see, blows away all denial. Really great job here, Matt, as always! Loved your saying the words, "Poor Big Company". Ha Bro, right on. I so hope America will be honorable in the face of the world and return to the International Climate Initiative Agreements at the Paris Accord International Climate Change Response Plan that were unanimously hammered out. It was amazing the hard work and cooperation efforts that went into its being such an outstanding success! So very rare to have seen such hard work by all countries in gaining multilateral agreements to address climate change on a united world effort. Americans can never again hold their heads quite as high on the world stage after dishonorably abandoning Americans participation and promises in agreements with all the other countries that labored so intensely to come up with an effective plan agreeable to all. A total bloody shame when Trump walked in and shocked the world by announcing that America was welching on our promised agreements.

[@MattCookOregon]

Right on thanks Mike. I guess this video screamed politics to some. I didn't mean to. Just mentioned the planet is warming which is a touchy subject to some. That and some people just looooove big companies and that comment probably hurt them haha!

[@OregonMikeH]

@@MattCookOregon YES! .. A BIG HA HA INDEED!

[@kittty2005]

I don't have a problem with science the weather Company cant predict much more than 5 days accurately , I was all for the El nino this winter except the 1rst 1/2 of Jan. 30 inches of snow .I just retired at age 70 Jun 8 been having trouble reducing my calorie intake and really bad knees, so it wasn't welcome, I was cursing the day till I got done pushing the snow off. Then drove around with 6 inches of snow on the roof of my car. Then warmer weather and I like it. It's February 7th. Tomorrow and Saturday the 40s.Back in 1967 we had normal weather as I remember 3 feet of snow total accumulation was 17 feet but a couple thaws every year brought it down. since that time 5 separate incidences of really cold weather like 40 below zero F, yeah and '68 green grass all winter ground never froze and south arm lake charlevoix had an inch and a half of ice, usually 6 inches of good clear ice and 3 inches of sno ice, '69 40 below 2 inches of snow 36 inches of clear ice and 6 inches of mixed ice. 16 ton dump trucks drove on the ice , a 20 ton track excavator drove across the ice 1300 feet , a construction company was putting new on off ramps for the Ironton cable guided ferry i think it's the last one in the US still running, yep it was REAL cold then. We had real crappy weather after that year all the way to 1978 then it got scary 3.5 day Blizzard not like the make believe blizzards of today a little wind and 2 feet of snow that's when you wear your big coat, man 2 story houses snow up to the second window sill, lots of people died. I've never posted this much stuff to most people but you're doing what I used to do but I just felt like sharing info of the past with you I have no children and am divorced you look like you got a nice family started don't mess it up it could be your last chance, well maybe I'll think of something else you videos lots of neat stuff to glean.

[@MattCookOregon]

Yep glad I said there is possibility for a good snow year cause last couple weeks has been nuts for snow. Prediction statistics can only be so accurate. It is always nice to hear about stories from way back, we tend to only hear about the last 5 years. Thanks for the family comment. A bit slower pace then I am used to but we are having a blast. I got an elk wildlife video coming next.

[@paulp.6399]

This video aged well.

[@MattCookOregon]

Global warming is FAKE NEWS!

[@Roscoesadie]

Not for long. 3 foot coming

[@MattCookOregon]

Not enough but I'm ready!

[@runninonempty820]

Why would worry about what a flat earther thinks?

[@gwengwen4535]

It’s wild too, since the globe model was brought to us by Rockefeller and Disney. Globe model has only been a theory taught as fact for about 75 years. All encyclopedias and dictionaries before the 50’s all spoke of a closed system and a stationary model. Always keep an open mind- science is not a religion, it’s about asking questions and testing theories.

[@MattCookOregon]

I was just trying to make people laugh. Little did I know I am part of a big government conspiracy!

[@MattCookOregon]

They do call us the big 3 in the world of science.

[@liz8343]

We’ll get plenty of snow. Don’t sweat it. This isn’t the first time for low snow and it won’t be the last.

[@MattCookOregon]

Lowest snow year YET!

[@liz8343]

@@MattCookOregon compared to-?

[@MattCookOregon]

@@liz8343 all the other years.

[@OregonMikeH]

THERE YA GO PAL!@@MattCookOregon

[@tj7870]

how can you compare science to maga? / S

[@MattCookOregon]

Oh my God I haven't thought about politics for about 3 years and now everyone is reminding me!

[@gwengwen4535]

El Niño!! Yep. Not global warming theory! Really hoping this doesn’t mean they’re going to DEW us again come summer and blame it on “climate change” but after what they did in Lahaina, anything is possible😔

[@MattCookOregon]

Hell ya. You hear about the new moon laser that is turning dogs into cats?

[@gwengwen4535]

@@MattCookOregon No, that’s silly! I have seen the patents, locations etc of DEW. You shouldn’t make fun of your subscribers, it’s OK to disagree without being rude! A good place to start is to just type in keywords, Air Force direct energy-I’m not crazy lol. It’s a very easy search!

[@MattCookOregon]

@@gwengwen4535 I'm sorry I thought we were just saying funny things.

[@jessewerner4067]

I've enjoyed your channel and the scenery you cover as a fellow Oregonian. You went too far on this one with your "global warning" and climate change preach. Suggesting that we are experiencing global warming and a steady loss of snowpack/rainfall is a blatant lie, especially after the fantastic snow pack we had last winter and compete like of any real science to substantiate it. Lake Shasta ring a bell? Why don't you go back and revisit Al Gore's ridiculous, anti-science statements he made in the 1990's about Florida and other states being under water by 2020. Stop buying into the scam and stop pushing this garbage. It has zero to do with science and everything to do with global control over the masses and tyranny. I hope that you choose to get educated and wake up. Unsubscribing

[@MattCookOregon]

Chill out it was like 1 line.

[@fitdoc565]

@jessewerner4067 you won’t be missed. So long 🤡

[@browakMD]

​@@MattCookOregonA few more of these snowflakes and we might end up with a decent season after all

[@MattCookOregon]

​@@browakMDLMAO burn. But differing opinions and realities are welcome if you change your mind.

[@OregonMikeH]

OH, I KNEW TO EXPECT A TYPICAL MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC TO GO OFF LIKE AN IDIOT, AND SURE ENOUGH! IT'S SO FUN, MATT. NEXT TIME YOU ONLY DO A 1 LINER, PLEASE DO REPEAT IT X3 ... OH BOY!@@MattCookOregon

[@paulp.6399]

Funny how people confuse weather patterns with "global warming". Go ask folks in Sweden right now about "global warming".

[@MattCookOregon]

The statistics are pretty clear that global temps are rising. Why does one cold instance prove all those statistics wrong to you?

[@Yentz4]

Funny how people confuse global warming with weather patterns. Go look at a 100 year graph and get back to me. Just because it's cold one day, doesn't mean the planet overall is not heating up. I know it's really hard for your pea brain to handle, but Imma need you to look at the bigger picture here, rather then the tiny bubble you live in.

[@MattCookOregon]

@@Yentz4 could be the giant lizards underground doing it all

[@OregonMikeH]

@@MattCookOregon TELL EM MATT : )