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600 Inches
Rocky Raab
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of snow. That's what our winter total will exceed during this big storm. Yes, that's 50 feet of snow. That's the total accumulation up in the mountains, and it doesn't lie that deep but that's how much has fallen so far. Ski resorts have had to dig down to let the ski lifts run.
We need several winters like this to finally break our catastrophic drought, but we'll fill the reservoirs this Spring, thankfully. It'll be good to be able to launch a boat again.
I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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Glad to hear, with your health problems, that you're thinking about launching a boat.
I always wondered about snow measurements. The more snow falls, the more the previous snow compacts. Sticking in a ruler gives you the depth, but is it an accurate measure of snow amount?
They just measure the amount that falls every time new snow falls and keep a running total.
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Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
That's why I said it doesn't lie 50 feet deep. Compaction, melt, and sublimation reduce the actual depth.
I just checked this morning and the Flathead Basin is at 103% of median water content in the snow. That's the important measurement, the amount of water actually contained in X inches of snow. Glad you folks are having a good year down there!
Yup, and gettin more as I type
You realize of course that no two snow flakes are identical.
And this fact is nothing short of miraculous!
It's also impossible to either prove or disprove. I could catch one and say "Hey, this is identical to one that fell 357 years ago in Greenland" and you could not argue against it.
this bunch would find a way...........
Where are you ???
We are catching up Rocky, If the trend continues, we will have plenty of irrigation water locally.
We were rationed after 1-July last year and completely cut off in mid August.
Average in the mountains of the upper Snake is 500” and we shouldn’t get much more extreme cold to dry out the snowpack
Mule
I? I'm in Ogden Utah.
We'll fill our reservoirs this Spring, for the first time in several years. Drought is still listed as extreme, however. It'll take several years like this to refill the ground water systems because runoff is too fast to soak down.
In previous 600" years, a few ski resorts were still open for limited skiing on July 4. That's totally dependent on how fast the melt is. One year, they had to channel melt down State Street in Salt Lake City it came so fast.
Thanks Mule for posting up those maps.
Looks like Rocky’s mountains are going to bust 600” early, 700” may not be out of reach.
61” in 7 days.
Mule
Yup. Another storm series starting tonight with sporadic snow through Monday.
They are starting preemptive drawdowns of a few of the higher reservoirs in anticipation of massive melt amounts.
Oldest just got back from coyote hunting out in Eureka and said he can't be believe how much snow is out that way.
Good looking water year ahead of us.
Oh yeah? Show me the picture!
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
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