LVNLARG
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Powdr said:
Well...that certainly shut em up in a hurry :lol:
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Snowfall Records
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Well...that certainly shut em up in a hurry :lol:
awf170
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LVNLARG said:
Well maybe I dont feel like arguing with you when there is not way it will ever end. I dont believe you can get 6 inches of snow in 10-15 minutes but whatever none of us have anyway to prove ourselves. I got the official record on my side, but you have your word. I dunno what wins?
salida
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I pick record... PS are you sure you are not measuring in Centimeters... and do you ever give up
LVNLARG
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salida said:
Yeah...and Teton Gravity Research is the holy grail? Look where your supposed historical record data is coming from...a bunch of pot heads! :lol: There is no way that bunch of crap is correct. It snows more per hour here more than 5 days a year. I already answered more than once I was measuring in inches. Maybe I shoulda measured in yottameters. I'll give you all about a year to figure out what one is. :roll:
salida
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Actually its also listed in a very recent publication of a William Ruddiman text book on climate change... a foremost authority on the weather...
LVNLARG
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salida said:
Something like that I would be far more likely to believe. I don't think any of these sources are looking beyond the confines of the lower 48 though...and even there...I think all of the recording equipment is located in cities for the purposes of weather forcasting to the bulk of population vs. setting up recording stations in places likely to have record events. Halifax actually now holds the world record for 1 day snowfall in a major city from the storm last year....however...as usual...our snowfall here stomped theres. That's a major city record though too and the Thompson Pass has records which top it...however...I think locally our total may have topped the Thompson pass 1 day total. I think all the records are dismally low due to mere lack of certified recording locations.
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Some forgotten issues
First of all i think no one has addressed a very important subject on this question. It is almost impossible to relate different snowfalls to each other unless you look at the amount of precip that fell during the period in question. As one person pointed out a foot of wet snow can equal twice as much in dry light snow. So if the question was "is it possible for 6 inches of precip in the form of snow to fall in 2 hours" i would say yes. I have not researched or ever heard of this, but in the world we live in that seems very possible to me, although not probable.
As for the issue of Mt. Baker having the world record. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center,the people responsible for researching claims such as Mt. Baker made, determined that Mt. Baker ski area accumulated 1,140 inches of snow for the '98-'99 season which is the world record.
I have included a link to an article that addressed this subject. http://classic.mountainzone.com/news/99/bakerrecord.html
As for the friend that was convinced that there was 70 inches in 2 hours i think he was mistaken. I have a friend in Mammoth and he reported that it snowed over 8 feet in 2 days closer to 100 inches, which is probably what the co-worker is referring to.
So maybe someone can answer the question, "what is the world record of precip in the form of snow that fell over a 2 hour period"?
Thanks,
D
First of all i think no one has addressed a very important subject on this question. It is almost impossible to relate different snowfalls to each other unless you look at the amount of precip that fell during the period in question. As one person pointed out a foot of wet snow can equal twice as much in dry light snow. So if the question was "is it possible for 6 inches of precip in the form of snow to fall in 2 hours" i would say yes. I have not researched or ever heard of this, but in the world we live in that seems very possible to me, although not probable.
As for the issue of Mt. Baker having the world record. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center,the people responsible for researching claims such as Mt. Baker made, determined that Mt. Baker ski area accumulated 1,140 inches of snow for the '98-'99 season which is the world record.
I have included a link to an article that addressed this subject. http://classic.mountainzone.com/news/99/bakerrecord.html
As for the friend that was convinced that there was 70 inches in 2 hours i think he was mistaken. I have a friend in Mammoth and he reported that it snowed over 8 feet in 2 days closer to 100 inches, which is probably what the co-worker is referring to.
So maybe someone can answer the question, "what is the world record of precip in the form of snow that fell over a 2 hour period"?
Thanks,
D
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