@werehatrack We do have something like 20-25 year record snowpack, but it won’t be that kind of problem unless we get a sudden warmup like with did back in May 1983.
In mid-April 2022, we got hit with 16" of snow. In NW Oregon! Never happened before in the >60 years I’ve been here. It pretty much wiped out the apple/pear/cherry crop from our trees for the year - I only hope we don’t get a repeat performance this year.
@blaineg If your luck is like mine, and you ignore it for a few days, just enough melting will happen to make for an impressively impervious sheet of ice that no blower can touch, beneath the next couple of feet of added snow.
We’re not getting as much as you, but it’s been steady all day, enough to bury the hyacinths. They’ll bounce back, though. What worries me is we’ve got an 80 degree day forecasted for next Tuesday! That’s not good; we don’t need a fast melt to flood the rivers.
Are they lining up the sandbags along North Temple for the flood diversion again?
@werehatrack We do have something like 20-25 year record snowpack, but it won’t be that kind of problem unless we get a sudden warmup like with did back in May 1983.
@blaineg I think that’s the theater where I saw the original Star Wars a week after it opened. Talk about a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
@werehatrack Very likely. If I remember right, the Centre theater had an exclusive Salt Lake run for Star Wars for over a year.
A more civilized age.
6" more inches of spring at home overnight. Just wet in SLC, and bone dry at work.
Interesting commute. And it’s still gridlock and blowing snow to the north.
In mid-April 2022, we got hit with 16" of snow. In NW Oregon! Never happened before in the >60 years I’ve been here. It pretty much wiped out the apple/pear/cherry crop from our trees for the year - I only hope we don’t get a repeat performance this year.
This just in.
@blaineg That’s fantastic!
@blaineg Response from ski resort operators: Woohoo!
And this morning, after several days of lovely brown grass, Spring is back with a vengeance.
@blaineg And more today. SWMBO sent me a message: “Take it easy at work, the snow hasn’t stopped all day. You’ve got a lot of snowblowing to do.”
Thanks, I think.
On the other hand, if I ignore it for a few days it will melt.
@blaineg If your luck is like mine, and you ignore it for a few days, just enough melting will happen to make for an impressively impervious sheet of ice that no blower can touch, beneath the next couple of feet of added snow.
@werehatrack Got home to over a foot of heavy, wet, compacted snow. Cleared a bit of the front walk by hand, and I’m gonna let the rest melt.
That would be dumb in winter, but we’re supposed to get snow through tomorrow at 9am, then over four days we ramp up to the 60’s.
Mother Nature can clean up her own mess this time.
Alta & Brighton resorts have exceed 800 inches (67 FEET) of snow, all time records.
https://ksltv.com/536694/alta-ski-area-passes-800-inches-of-snow-for-first-time-ever/
Too much snow? Snowbasin resort.
@blaineg Incredible!
We’re not getting as much as you, but it’s been steady all day, enough to bury the hyacinths. They’ll bounce back, though. What worries me is we’ve got an 80 degree day forecasted for next Tuesday! That’s not good; we don’t need a fast melt to flood the rivers.
@Kyeh My Grandma used to say: If there’s no snow on the tulips, we’re not done with winter yet.
This morning at 0 dark thirty.
I’m just going to watch it melt. 60’s by the weekend.
Ok, it could be a lot worse.
Meanwhile, in my driveway.
@blaineg The road into Cedar Breaks was like that one year, back in the '70s. The snow might have been deeper.
What a relief!