Where? Hint – somewhere in the USA
details here:
http://weatherpictureoftheday.com/2011/06/07/guess-the-location/
h/t EthicallyCivil
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Where? Hint – somewhere in the USA
details here:
http://weatherpictureoftheday.com/2011/06/07/guess-the-location/
h/t EthicallyCivil
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Way O/T
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/07/argentina.chile.volcano/
Are we seeing more reporting on volcanoes, or are we seeing actually increases or changes in the types and locations of volcanic activity?
I get the feel me may be seeing the start of an up-tic in activity that will exceed average and move us back toward the mean.
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?2003ESASP.535..393S&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf
This is global warming!!! More snow? Less snow? Hotter? Colder? Who cares!!! It’s all global warming!!!
I was going to guess somewhere around the back side of Yosemite.
Some Kahlua on your snow cone?
another OT
IPv6
On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.
http://www.worldipv6day.org/
Going to the Sun in Glacier National Park?
The most successful thing about the climate modeling predictions is that they have more noise than the actual climate data thereby allowing all things in the climate to be consistent with the models.
This must be one of them tropical parks. For a real Rocky Mountain Park, check this out: http://www.nps.gov/glac/parknews/news11-32.htm
Going-to the-Sun Road in Glacier Nat’l Park….
Looks to me the reports of Glacier’s demise were greatly
exaggerated..
Tioga Pass?
Usually they try to open it for the Memorial Day weekend, but they are a lot more cautious after some deaths a few years pack.
Tioga pass (Northen CA Mtn’s)
Donner Pass.
Beartooth Highway (where I have found the most tiny of a permanent glacier in July 2007) won’t open until Saturday at least.
That’s rather Western Slopish – generally the Rockies don’t get that type of mass.
Somewhat related. I was looking at melt curves for the Sierra. I had always assumed that the curve would have a downward “knee” – once a certain point was reached the melt would accelerate. But counter intuitively, the actual curves are exponential decay curves. Then it dawned on me, in the locations in question there is sufficient compaction in the lower parts of the pack for actual ice formation – pre glaciation. This year’s curves should be mighty interesting.
Oh my gosh! Maybe somewhere in the midwest? Minnesota?
Summer snow storm in Hawaii:
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2011/06/06/video-summer-snow-in-hawaii-high-on-mauna-kea/
It’s a great place to visit. My family and I went there two summers ago and got snowed on in the first week of August. The peaks above Estes Park were getting covered up with snow as we were leaving.
I second Tioga Pass.
Me and the mate want to hike the Mono Pass Trail on the spine of the Sierra Nevada’s, but we’re not sure if it will even be clear of snow this year.
Tioga Pass road is still closed in Yosemite, avalanche danger is too high at Olmsted Point. Road is plowed though but the parking lots are not cleared and damage needs to be repaired. SR 108 though Sonora Pass is still closed, too.
I witnessed similar road conditions on the roads on the east flank of Mt. Rainier in July 1999, on the way to an (aborted) hiking trip. I marvel at you Yanks, getting roads cleared for driving under such conditions.
Crater Lake National Park. South loop drive.
Hmm… Looks like the road to Crater Lake in Oregon.
It looks like Colorado. I’ve driven thru similar scenes thru out CO and UT.
It is foolish to get out of your vehicle, whether measuring snow depth or not. Many of the deepest areas are that way because of slides. While working at a coal mine in the mountains of UT, some of the yard crew went to clear a slide like this, stood around talking about it, and another slide came thru and killed two of them.
Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountains National Park
With image enhancement software (don’t ask, it’s classified) you can see both the state (Colorado) on the license plate of the truck and to the front left of it a sign reading “il Ridge Road”. I had to guess about the first three letters on the sign. You can also count the foot markers on the pole. The snow is 22 feet deep.
My first thought was the top of Bear Tooth Pass in Yellowstone. With or without snow, that’s one spectacular drive.