Who has Snow?

[Industrial Toys]

This stuff just won't go away. Maybe on the weekend they say. But then as you get closer, the predictions often change, bit by bit for the worst.

Cold and blustery today, with occasional snow showers.

We were cutting some wood on the weekend, and agreed it felt more like a January day!

 

[Doofy]

This stuff just won't go away. Maybe on the weekend they say. But then as you get closer, the predictions often change, bit by bit for the worst.

Cold and blustery today, with occasional snow showers.

We were cutting some wood on the weekend, and agreed it felt more like a January day!

Totally fed up with the Weather Guessers. Even with all their new satellites and computer models, they still cannot predict the weather reliably. Lately, our predictions change 4 or 5 time a day and none have even been close.

 

[Oaktree]

Even with all their new satellites and computer models, they still cannot predict the weather reliably. Lately, our predictions change 4 or 5 time a day and none have even been close.

Don't know how the weather patterns in Alaska are, but New England is notoriously difficult to predict. So many weather patterns converge here, and if the track changes a few miles it can make a big difference. Lots and lots of micro-climates too.
Where I live is in a "snow shadow" where coastal storms (ie-northeasters) don't give us much, the White Mountains block most of it. Seems the past few years we've been getting more of those.

Another 2-4 inches snow today...starting to add up.

Yeah, that's about what we got too. Not quite enough to be bothered to plow, but a bit too much to ignore. This time of year I lean towards "ignore"...builds up a nice base making it easier to plow later on, but you don't want that base to get too thick either. Ground here's not really frozen very deep yet.

 

[Doofy]

Oak tree, Our weather patterns seem to be almost identical. We have the Chugach Mountains to the south of us that tend to block the ocean-born storms from Prince William Sound (60-70 miles away, over the mountains). We may get 40" of snow a year while Valdez gets around 300-500" per year. Also, very temperate considering that the coldest temp here has been -43F(1943) when 35 miles up the road it has been -74F. Low so far this year has been -3F.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Just curious. Is HAARP (sp?) still running?

 

[Doofy]

Just curious. Is HAARP (sp?) still running?

The Air Force gave HAARP to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks to continue research and testing. I never did wear a tin-foil hat.

 

[dragoneggs]

Wondering when/if we get snow, what my new personal weather station is going to record?

 

[oosik]

Because of the way I have my Davis Vantage Pro 2 set I get warnings daily. "Ice warning" "frost warnings" "rain warnings" "saved daily weather data with no error notice" "snow warning" "wind warning" etc etc. I have a symbol on my Davis monitor that shows rain coming and another for snow coming. There is a "snow warning" - it warns of coming snow - - it does not measure rate of snow fall nor depth of accumulated snow.

The station does keep very detailed and accurate measurements and records of ALL measured weather data. As a matter of fact - one best pay fairly close attention of how much data you want stored on your computer. I have mine set to keep 25 years of wind, rain & temperature data ONLY. All the other data will be kept for a month and then dumped. The one terabyte hard drive on my computer will easily handle that much data. Besides - who expects to have the same computer twenty five years from now.

 

[Jstpssng]

Because of the way I have my Davis Vantage Pro 2 set I get warnings daily. "Ice warning" "frost warnings" "rain warnings" "saved daily weather data with no error notice" "snow warning" "wind warning" etc etc. I have a symbol on my Davis monitor that shows rain coming and another for snow coming. There is a "snow warning" - it warns of coming snow - - it does not measure rate of snow fall nor depth of accumulated snow.

The station does keep very detailed and accurate measurements and records of ALL measured weather data. As a matter of fact - one best pay fairly close attention of how much data you want stored on your computer. I have mine set to keep 25 years of wind, rain & temperature data ONLY. All the other data will be kept for a month and then dumped. The one terabyte hard drive on my computer will easily handle that much data. Besides - who expects to have the same computer twenty five years from now.

I still have my same computer from 25 years ago... a pencil and pad of paper.

 

[oosik]

And - Jstpssng - a lot of the time your "computer" is a whole lot easier to understand.