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Post by sigurdur on Feb 20, 2019 18:40:54 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 20, 2019 18:56:55 GMT
Flagstaff, Arizona Winter 2018-19Looking like Flagstaff is heading back (at least this winter) to a solar minimum winter. My last winter living there (2009-10) we had about 100 inches of snow. The old timers always said to expect 7 feet of snow in a normal winter, but the 1990s-2000s were not that type of normal. To date this winter they've had 45 inches and todays storm may yield another 24 inches ... nearing that 7 foot mark. When the jet comes charging out of Southern California, expect to get buried on the south flank of the Mogollon Rim at 7000 feet. But after the storm, the canyons draining the rim down to the high deserts are spectacular. And that is a south facing rim so it melts quickly. In 2007 I rode from Phoenix through Flag to the South Rim. It was the last week of April. Left Phoenix in a tee shirt and by Flag I had every piece of leather on I owned. It was snowing hard coming through Flag. I love that place. First week of May in 2005, the North Rim delayed opening a week because of how deep the snow was. They opened the day I got there and the road to the park had 6 foot of snow on each side. It was a cold ride but awesome! The Colorado Plateau is a special place and a tee shirt won't cut it for long in Flag ... not even in the summer after about 6 PM. That dry mountain air don't hold much heat. Did you make it up to God's country (the sandstone canyons) in Southeastern Utah?
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Post by blustnmtn on Feb 20, 2019 23:14:18 GMT
In 2007 I rode from Phoenix through Flag to the South Rim. It was the last week of April. Left Phoenix in a tee shirt and by Flag I had every piece of leather on I owned. It was snowing hard coming through Flag. I love that place. First week of May in 2005, the North Rim delayed opening a week because of how deep the snow was. They opened the day I got there and the road to the park had 6 foot of snow on each side. It was a cold ride but awesome! The Colorado Plateau is a special place and a tee shirt won't cut it for long in Flag ... not even in the summer after about 6 PM. That dry mountain air don't hold much heat. Did you make it up to God's country (the sandstone canyons) in Southeastern Utah? I rode to and stayed at Zion and Bryce. I have not done Canyon Lands.............yet.
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 21, 2019 2:08:26 GMT
Missouri Drivers in Action Last Week
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Post by Ratty on Feb 21, 2019 5:38:36 GMT
Missouri Drivers in Action Last Week TTL we don't have icy roads here ...... our lot would be much worse.
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Post by Ratty on Feb 21, 2019 7:12:42 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 22, 2019 8:16:21 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 22, 2019 14:19:09 GMT
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Post by fatjohn1408 on Feb 22, 2019 18:20:21 GMT
Interesting snow anomaly in the northern hemisphere I estimate this as three standard deviations above the mean? So a 1 in 300 year event? Global albedo must be through the roof going into northern hemisphere spring. Cant have a great warming impact on summer temperatures.
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 22, 2019 19:56:11 GMT
They missed on their forecast a bit. Last I saw, they were forecasted to get up to 25 inches. But that is a tough forecast location. When those wet SW monsters come roaring out of So Cal and climb that rim, the forecast might as well just be ... "Y'all gonna get buried." Inches and even feet become meaningless. In 2009-10, it took us 2 days to accumulate 4 feet. and the other 5 feet accumulated across the season edges. twitter.com/ChadWilliamson
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Post by Ratty on Feb 22, 2019 23:34:42 GMT
Interesting snow anomaly in the northern hemisphere I estimate this as three standard deviations above the mean? So a 1 in 300 year event? Global albedo must be through the roof going into northern hemisphere spring. Cant have a great warming impact on summer temperatures. Good find FJ1408. I will be using that elsewhere.
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 23, 2019 5:34:37 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 23, 2019 13:38:44 GMT
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Post by fatjohn1408 on Feb 24, 2019 11:48:29 GMT
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Post by fatjohn1408 on Feb 24, 2019 11:52:32 GMT
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