Posted by Hal--WA on January 10, 2009 at 14:28:51 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: SNOW PHOTOS posted by Larry D. on January 10, 2009 at 10:03:57:
I didn't take any photos, but the 4' deep drift on top of my house concerned me enough so I spent many hours up there shoveling it off with my aluminum grain scoop. The snow was really packed and heavy.
What really worried me was that the weather forecasters had predicted 1.5" of rain in a storm that was part of a "chinook" system that lasted about a week. It got really warm, into the middle 40's and the total snow volume went down quite a bit. But that drift was large enough that it didn't seem to get that much smaller and I was worried about it soaking up that much rain and becoming too heavy for the truss system. So I shoveled, and shoveled and shoveled. And then we got less than 1/2" of rain. Oh well, at least I didn't have to worry any more. I am sure glad I don't swing a shovel for a living--that is incredibly hard work!
We had the largest amount of snowfall of any December on record in the Spokane area, just short of 6 feet. Considering that we average about 4 feet of snowfall for a whole Winter season usually, the December we had was really amazing. Last Winter we had the second most snowfall of any year since they started keeping records in the 1880's, and this Winter is on a pace to break the previous record of 1949-1950 easily. We are within a foot of that record and we usually get some snow out into March. January is usually the snowiest month.
As I type this, it is snowing outside. But it doesn't look like today's snowstorm will amount to much. I am hoping that the temperature will remain moderate, with highs somewhat above freezing and lows in the mid-20's. That way the snow will continue to slowly melt and the melt will hopefully sink into the ground with relatively little runoff. Right now we have about 2 feet of very dense, wet snow on the ground. A fast meltoff could cause flooding and soil erosion problems, as well as wasting the water down the creeks and rivers.
2008 is for sure going to be remembered in Spokane as the YEAR OF THE BIG SNOW!
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