That "Atmospheric River"
The TV channels have been wide-eyed and panicked about the weather systems hitting California. They say "Atmospheric River" at least every other sentence. Listen, if San Fran got even half of the predicted "massive flooding" just maybe it flushed the streets. I use "flushed" deliberately.
Anywho, the first wave of that storm has now reached Utah. We had rain turning to snow overnight, and now turning to "snudge". That's my term for snow that turns to sludge upon ground contact. It's ugly out there. So far .88" of it and climbing fast.
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On that five minute story on ABC News the other night, lead story, they went on four 4 1/2 minutes of the horrors of a flood in San Francisco, and a threatening snow-pack un the Snowy Mountains. Just at the very end they tossed in, as an aside, that this would benefit farmers. The benefit of the precip was incidental
If you watched ABC News last summer, they went on and on about the record drought and how Climate Change was destroying California agriculture.
With this current rain storm, they could have emphasized the benefits. DROUGHT IS BROKEN!! HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR CALIFORNIA ALMOND FARMS!
But the Lib media plays up the negative aspects of the weather.
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Rocky Raab: 30376436206875/comments/30376459022747
Ended up with right at 1.25" from that first one here. That's huge for Utah. And there are at least two or three more waves of that river coming. May it last.
The Farmer's Almanac said Utah would have a cooler and drier winter - just what we did NOT need. I'm glad the Old Farmer was full of beans.
Rocky,
Do you ever get any of the “lake effect “ snow storms where you are?
I have seen some serious accumulation in a short period while waiting to catch a flight out of SLC during a “lake effect “ storm, they don’t last long but they really put it down.
Mule
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Yes,but most of those miss us and hit south of us more towards salt lake city.
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Years back I attended a Aircraft load planner course in Ogden. It was clean and pretty.
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Rocky Raab: 30376436206875/comments/30376461564315
Yes,but most of those miss us and hit south of us more towards salt lake city.
That’s what I thought, but didn’t know for certain.
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Joe, I have lvied here for 36 years now, and can't think of a better place. It isn't perfect, mind you, but I'll finish my days here.
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Rocky Raab: 30376436206875/comments/30376461770651
Joe, I have lvied here for 36 years now, and can't think of a better place. It isn't perfect, mind you, but I'll finish my days here.
Also been to Salt Lake city for a wedding. It was at the time of rebuilding the interstates for the Olympics. Oh my the traffic.
The city was very nice and quickly figuring out the layout made finding an address a actual game for us. I.E., 4 blocks down, 6 blocks over ect, we drove around like we were from there.
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Rocky Raab: 30376436206875/comments/30376461770651
Joe, I have lvied here for 36 years now, and can't think of a better place. It isn't perfect, mind you, but I'll finish my days here.
It is a beautiful state!
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I like to say that you can put a camera on self-timer and merely throw it in the air to get "postcard" pictures.
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Rocky,
You ever head East and go up over Monte Christo to Woodruff then north to Bear Lake and back down Logan canyon?
Mule
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Yes, gorgeous drive and a fine way to spend a day. When the colors change in Autumn, it is amazing - but you have to make the trip before they close the road for the winter.
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I don’t think the heavy stuff’s gonna come down for quite awhile
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I don’t think the heavy stuff’s gonna come down for quite awhile
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Those people are really small.
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Mr. Perfect: 30376436206875/comments/30376476144027
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Those people are really small.
Well, it is Japan
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Well, it is Japan
They almost have as much snow there as I do here. (more coming down today).
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I enjoy visiting well groomed snow, for short periods of time. However, I don’t enjoy living with it.
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