I biked up Mount Umunhum (means "place of the hummingbirds") on a terrible, steel frame mountain bike when I was a kid up Hicks Rd. Los Gatos and came down the other side by the reservoir at 45 mph / 72 kph (measured by cyclometer) sitting on the rear bike rack because the road was very, very steep. It had an old Cold War radar dish on it since it was the highest peak and it was visible from my house in South San Jose. The road to the radar dish was closed then. It has a weather station on it now.
I've never see it not covered in snow in the winter, green in the spring, or brown or yellow in the autumn and summer.
If this is the case, Has this happened before? If it does happen more often, maybe this area could be turning into a desert? If I remember, the native peoples lived amongst trees and more vegetation than exists today because immigrants cleared the land for farmland. (The house I grew up in was originally on the land of cherry orchards and I would find many ancient, rusty iron nails.)
South west San Jose / Almaden Valley are probably in the partial rain shadow of the Santa Cruz mountains, but the top of the Santa Cruz mountains should have lots of rain and fog.
I've never see it not covered in snow in the winter, green in the spring, or brown or yellow in the autumn and summer.
If this is the case, Has this happened before? If it does happen more often, maybe this area could be turning into a desert? If I remember, the native peoples lived amongst trees and more vegetation than exists today because immigrants cleared the land for farmland. (The house I grew up in was originally on the land of cherry orchards and I would find many ancient, rusty iron nails.)
South west San Jose / Almaden Valley are probably in the partial rain shadow of the Santa Cruz mountains, but the top of the Santa Cruz mountains should have lots of rain and fog.