01-06-2017, 10:44 PM
[quote SkunkedAgain]Man don't know where home is for you, but I live in Cache Valley and it dumped up there over night 8" when I left around 5:00 and was still coming down when I left, starting to look like Jackson hole with all the snow mounds everywhere... Got to work in Roy and no snow.... yet..... Anyway it's looking good for filling the ponds so far...
720 in the hills sounds like more than I've seen but maybe 200" of snow on the ground at one time... 60 feet of snow would cover all the trees... I do remember years when only the tops of the quakies could be seen in the high country... good sledding years... Be interesting... Later J[/quote]
Alta got 723" of snowfall in the winter of 2010/2011. That's measured as the snow falls. It was 220-ish inches of snow on the ground, but it's something like 3-4' of water. In the flooding of 1983, the issue wasn't the snowpack, which was close to average, but the speed in which it melted and the fact that the ground was already saturated. I remember that well because it turned the 10 minute drive to my grandparent's house into a 90 minute drive for a one-way trip.
I'm hoping that we have a couple of somewhat above average snowpack years that include a nice gradual warmup instead of a sudden shift from freezing to 80 degrees in less than a week.
We've got about 18" of snow on the ground here and that's after most of it melted on tuesday before the last storm came through.
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720 in the hills sounds like more than I've seen but maybe 200" of snow on the ground at one time... 60 feet of snow would cover all the trees... I do remember years when only the tops of the quakies could be seen in the high country... good sledding years... Be interesting... Later J[/quote]
Alta got 723" of snowfall in the winter of 2010/2011. That's measured as the snow falls. It was 220-ish inches of snow on the ground, but it's something like 3-4' of water. In the flooding of 1983, the issue wasn't the snowpack, which was close to average, but the speed in which it melted and the fact that the ground was already saturated. I remember that well because it turned the 10 minute drive to my grandparent's house into a 90 minute drive for a one-way trip.
I'm hoping that we have a couple of somewhat above average snowpack years that include a nice gradual warmup instead of a sudden shift from freezing to 80 degrees in less than a week.
We've got about 18" of snow on the ground here and that's after most of it melted on tuesday before the last storm came through.
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