Posted on 04/24/2018 5:36:58 PM PDT by Libloather
Billings-area residents trudged through the slush Monday, but the storm brought some "good" news: The long winter of suffering has not been in vain.
Shortly after 10 a.m., the National Weather Service in Billings announced that a scant 0.1 inches of snow had fallen — not enough to accumulate much on the ground or streets, but enough to break the single-season snowfall record.
The measuring station at Billings Logan International Airport recorded 2.6 inches by 1 p.m., bringing the yearly total to 106.1 inches.
(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.com ...
Not to worry.
Algore said the grandchildren will never see snow in their lives.
D’OH! Climate change happened. The planet’s cooling!
There is a an explanation for this....just wait.... some schlep “Scientist” will set us Rubes straight on how we dare not toe the Al Gore line.
Marquette, Michigan, averages 203.6 inches of snow each winter and saw a staggering 319.8 inches in the winter of 2001-02.
The snowiest season of any "large" U.S. city is held by Buffalo, New York, at 199.4 inches. I don't k
What's the population of Marquette, MI?
Truckee California checks in at an average of 211 inches a year, and it’s about double that fifteen minutes away in all directions.
I don’t know. This is past Marquette in the Keweenaw peninsula past Calumet and Ahmeek near Mohawk as you are traveling out U.S.41 towards Copper Harbor (the end of the peninsula).
That’s gonna hurt the orange crop.
Three winters ago we had 120 inches in central MA.
It sure does, but gets no national news attention.
They got over 4” yesterday in my hometown in Montana. Gone by midday!
Al gore must be in town.
all that snow melt flows east or just south south to tahoe but where does it go from there.
there is no river that runs down to the colorado from this neighborhood.
does it just run into the desert and dry up? can’t be there’s too much snow melt.
that snow melt water doesn’t flow to the pacific.
It doesn’t flow to the gulf of california via the colorado.
where it looks like it just flows to the desert and dries up.
but that can’t be. what happens to all the snow melt on the east side of the sierra nevadas since most of it doesn’t flow south to the colorado river
Most of the snow melt water in the Truckee/Tahoe area runs into the Truckee River into Reno and beyond.
South of there, from the town of Lee Vining in California south, 60% of the Sierra Nevada snowmelt water travels down the creeks and Owens River to the LA Aqueduct, and then several hundred miles south to the City of Los Angeles.
“but that can’t be. what happens to all the snow melt on the east side of the sierra nevadas since most of it doesn’t flow south to the colorado river”
This entire region basically from the sierras to Utah is called the great basin. There are no rivers that go to the ocean. All water that enters this entire region leaves only via evaporation or percolation.
I think a good part of the water that flows down the east side of the Sierra Nevada ends up in Los Angeles.
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