I came across this blog entry today. The snowpack in the Olympics is about 400! X normal!
It looks like the snow has collected all over the Northwest. We should be thankful that the spring has been cool. Let's keep hoping the early summer will be so too because that means the snow will melt more slowly, allowing our rivers to carry it off without overflowing their banks. The floods we have already had were due to the unusual amount of rain, not snowpack.
There is some information on Montana in the entry as well as a comment on the results of mathematical equations when you don't pay attention to the actual numbers being put in.
The picture to the left is from the last horrible winter we had right here in River City. I have many more including our driveway seeming to be permanently iced up.
The other point of interest in the blog entry I cited above was the comment that our wind farms are suffering from an excess of wind with all the wetness and coldness we have had.
I drove through Judith Gap a few days ago and noticed almost all of them between Harlowton and Judith Gap moving at a pretty good pace. I didn't know that you can have too much wind as well as not enough to foul up the energy-collecting they do.
Black and white to color, as if moving from the 40s to the 90s.
This is a small experiment in the blogosphere. "If you have no interest in what it's like to grow old, what follows is not for you. However, if it's going to happen to you, and the outcome is ultimately going to be negative, then finding a way to make the process as bearable, even as enjoyable as possible, might be worth a little attention."—from John Jerome's On Turning Sixty-Five
25 June 2011
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400 times the global warming? :D
I suspect they are comparing what the usual snowpack is at this time of the year, which is not much. Naturally, you get a big number when you divide by a number close to zero. Perhaps the alarmists would know more about this technique.
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