Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

[deserteagle71]

We had 71 degrees here on Wednesday. It started raining early Thursday morning and the thermometer plummeted and the rain turned to snow. My yardstick this morning:

It would have been a lot deeper but the ground was so warm the snow merely melted for several hours.

 

[Oaktree]

We had 71 degrees here on Wednesday. It started raining early Thursday morning and the thermometer plummeted and the rain turned to snow. My yardstick this morning:


It would have been a lot deeper but the ground was so warm the snow merely melted for several hours.

How much snow do you typically get in your part of Nevada? Being desert country I'd think not much.

 

[deserteagle71]

How much snow do you typically get in your part of Nevada? Being desert country I'd think not much.

According to the National Weather Service, the average yearly snowfall for the nearest town is 22" total. It rarely stays on the ground for more than just a few days - that Nevada sun is just too strong. Of course, that statistic is for the valley...my house is at 4418 feet elevation. The mountains are a different story. Right behind my house the mountain is right at 10,000 feet elevation - essentially a mile higher. There the snow really piles up. 20 - 30 feet deep is not unusual; in July I can leave my house and in 12 miles be sitting in a snow bank to cool off. My place is visible in this pic right at the base of the mountain range:

 

[Rustyiron]

Thanks for the reminder of the scale of things out west!
Probably been 20+ years.
Beautiful

 

[Jrob730]

What state are you in again?

Vermont

 

[MossRoad]

According to the National Weather Service, the average yearly snowfall for the nearest town is 22" total. It rarely stays on the ground for more than just a few days - that Nevada sun is just too strong. Of course, that statistic is for the valley...my house is at 4418 feet elevation. The mountains are a different story. Right behind my house the mountain is right at 10,000 feet elevation - essentially a mile higher. There the snow really piles up. 20 - 30 feet deep is not unusual; in July I can leave my house and in 12 miles be sitting in a snow bank to cool off. My place is visible in this pic right at the base of the mountain range:
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Nice! The highest ground around here is a landfill.

 

[pmsmechanic]

So today the snow blower was stored away and the fel went on. Any more snow that falls will be easily dealt with by the sun and wind and the fel.

 

[Oaktree]

So today the snow blower was stored away and the fel went on. Any more snow that falls will be easily dealt with by the sun and wind and the fel.

That's what I thought 2 or 3 weeks ago. I really want to finish cutting/splitting a couple cords of log-length firewood, but don't dare swap the FEL for forks yet. Not with the way things have been this year. Plowed the driveway more times in April than I did all winter.

 

[stevem5215]

Going this am to pick up a FREE snowblower. Says it won't go into neutral. Well, we'll see for free can't go wrong I figure! (maybe unless it turns into a money pit lol)

 

[Jimbo16720]

Put it in the river like they use to it ends up there when it melts anyway. People think all that salt just stays where they put it but all that ends up in the river no matter where you pile it.