Snow Watch 06/07

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kevywevy

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yes... it seems as though it is that time of year my children! snow has fallen at stevens pass today, thus inspiring the 06/07 snow watch thread. some may wonder why now and not earlier. well you see, its all about patients young ones. i knew if i had posted it back in the begining of october like last year hearts would be broken.

SNOQUALMIE...

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a very handy site for up-to-date road condtions...

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/maciver/roadview/i90/

STEVENS

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a very handy site for up-to-date road condtions...

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/maciver/roadview/sr2/

WHITE PASS

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MT. RAINER FROM PARADISE

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crystal's cams aren't working and baker doesn't have one still....

FORECAST AND RADAR

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and i think thats all!

 
i dont know... thats a clean forecast. i can do without the shit friday and saturday, but the rest is intriguing. we got a bit spoiled last year, and we almost lost it (it rained a bit in december), so im not too anxious, but it still looks nice. but that shit changes a lot
 
I fucking love that show, soooooo good. I burned myself on my George Forman grill at dinner and I was like "Son of a...! Every goddamn time!!"
 
looks like stevens got a little more snow over the night, and the forecast is looking alright - that would be nice if it stays like this.
 
Dude, you said EXACTLY what I was going to say, except I'd have one more 's' in in yessss and I'd capitalize the 'I' in 'i love the snow watch thread!'

Other than that, Yessss, I love the snow watch thread!
 
interesting quote from some reading that im doing for school...

"Since 1950, the Cascades snowpack has been reduced by 50% and scientists predict that by 2050 climate change could reduce snowpack by another 50%"

just think about that. we have half the snow that we used to 50 years ago. stop wasting energy. turn off your computers pick up a book. stop driving to school and take the bus. get some god damn florescent light bulbs! turn your heaters down. get some insulated windows. and for snow's sake, get rid of your Yukons, Escalades, Suburbans, Expiditions, F150's, Superduties, Explorers, Rang Rovers, Blazers, and get a little four cylender engine car and save yourself some gas money and the world we live in. god damn it i want double the snow!!!
 
I graphed out the last 82 years of mt. rainier's annual snowfall, so here's a little something to ponder over while we wait for snow...

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It's interesting to see how the snowfall has been impacted (the gap is due to WWII road closures and some other stuff) - at first glance, it appears as though our averages have become higher. I can't really verify whether or not thats true because I havent done the math, but look at how much more inconsistant our snowfall has become. Peaking highs, lowwwww lows...In order to make more accurate observations I would need at least another 100 years added on to the graph (maybe from 1820 -2002).....

anyways, just something interesting to look at if you're bored
 
yes. grease. and lots of it!!!

somebody told me its only a short term answer, but they couldn't explain why. diesels get a lot better gas milage too, well not so much as a lot better any more, seeing how the yaris gets 40mpg on a regular engine and the hybrids get 50
 
bio diesle is great stuff, really good milage too, my friends Jetta wegon gets about 60 mpg when they run it on bio. Also Electric power is so underrated, hydro and wind power willnever be used up as long as we have temp. changes over different places on earth and water. plus solar energy is great to.
 
what elevation is that at?

as things get warmer there is going to be more precip so if that's at a high elevation than yes, the snowfall average should be higher. however, we should be more concerned about what's going on from 2,000-5,000 foot elevations
 
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that is a really interesting graph. im gonna have to agree with chris that the higher elevations are getting more consistently higher snowfall, yet the lower elevation areas will be pissed on. aka snoqualmie will be gettin rain, and stevens turn into snoqualmie. then colorado will be epic since they are so much higher. props on the graph though
 
At this point its only a short term answer because we would not be able to run every automobile on the face of this earth off vegetable oil - we would be raping the land if we tried, and just wouldnt be able to farm enough to produce enough grease. However some scientists and farmers are working on ways that we COULD make it a long term answer. For instance, algae. It is almost pure oil, can grow in any season, and we can grow huge amounts of it in a small area. If this algae project (they are growing them in long glass tubes in large quantities right now) can be concluded as a working source of fuel, we could easily power all of our automobiles off it. But for the time being grease is the way to go, I'm picking up my truck in a couple weeks and converting it....anybody have a lot of extra soy bean oil???
 
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for some reason the komo ones went down...

huh i hadn't heard about the algea. thats pretty cool. what kind of truck you getting? there are lots of old volvo 240 diesels around. are there that many places around seattle you can get boidiesel? last time i checked there were only like 4
 
Either a ford f250, chevy 2500, or chevy 2500 cummins. And yeah there are a few places to buy biodiesel if thats what you want to use, a few in ballard are the ones i know of. I'm going straight vegetable oil though, so i'll be getting soy bean oil from a local chinese restaurant and basically filing up from my house.
 
I'm not going to bother to read everything previously posted, so excuse my ignorance, but...

andy - you're buying a truck??? why? Biodiesel or not, a truck???
 
hahaha....yes....a truck. The reason being: I want something with enough room in the back to load up snow for handrail sessions...but, when converting to run on grease you actually need to install a new gas tank, which takes up space. so i want to be left with a good amount of space after the fact. We also have a wakeboard boat that needs to be towed.....so 4500 lbs towing capacity at the LEAST
 
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