Kelan
1941
Yeah, where I went to college up in Houghton, MI that was a common thing to do a few times a year to shovel snow off of roofs of all kinds. I fell off a 2 story roof helping a friend do that once, heh. The average snowfall there was something like 220 inches and hit 350+ at least one year I was there. I must admit, I still miss the place. I should go back one year to check out the Winter Carnival again sometime.
Kelan
1942
Hah! I remember that place. You were right across the lake from Houghton where I was at. We used to get Thunder Bay weather on our local news forecast maps I remember.
CraigM
1943
Michigan Tech? If so how long ago was this, because my sister just graduated from there.
Kelan
1944
Yes indeed. I was there in the late '80s.
CraigM
1945
Cool, I know she enjoyed being up there because she got to do dogsled races. She even kept one of the dogs that retired as a pet when she moved back to Chicago.
So yeah, a very cold and snowy area.
It was overcast and 60 in SF today. Kinda sucked I won’t lie.
— Alan
This appeared over Grand Teton last week:
— Alan
tryte
1948
I remember thinking the same thing. Photos (say, from summertime) where everything isn’t covered in snow and surrounded by 8 foot snowbanks look strange and otherworldly.
There are some folks braving some enormous cold to take some amazing pics:
— Alan
Seems spring is right around the corner finally, the whole next week is going to be above 40 here in NE PA!
This is what my front yard looks like after this Wednesday’s storm, hopefully the last one. I think we got around 45 inches this year, not anywhere near Boston’s crazy total of 106 inches.
The severe weather season in the plains and south has really kicked off today with some moderate severe risk zones stretching from Oklahoma to Arkansas and it’s starting to kick off now with confirmed tornadoes on the ground west of Tulsa (going directly east) and back in northern/northwestern Arkansas now as well. While the danger today was described to be rather enormous hail, sounds like the cap was weakened quite sufficiently to provide more than enough energy for tornadic storms.
Note to chasers: if you’re going to stream, please learn how to turn off the dang auto-focus on your cameras and set the focus to infinity. You look like an idiot if you provide a feed that continually focuses on the rain drops on your windscreen.
— Alan
Oh man, tornado on the ground in Moore, Oklahoma… again.
— Alan
…and that’s why I’m no longer in Oklahoma. Also, the branch office closing and having to relocate had something to do with it.
So here in Boston it’s the end of May and it’s been in the 80s for the better part of two weeks.
And guess what we still have? Yep, snow. Giant piles of filthy, dirty snow:
At least it’s not 118 degrees like it is in New Dehli.
We had major flooding in Texas. I had water creep in and will have to replace carpet and laminate flooring in some parts of the house at the least. I consider it lucky as lots of friends got hit much harder.
Yeah the levels of rainfall in May for large parts of Texas has been pretty astounding. While the lake levels are still below their average (Lake Travis for instance went up over 20 feet this month and is still way below May average for instance), drought conditions have very much eased throughout the state for the first time in… 4-5 years I believe (only some counties now are experiencing major drought conditions). The Trinity River is very full up in the D/FW area to an extent I haven’t seen in… many years. And the D/FW area just got a ton of rain last night from a huge squall line that extended from Big Bend all the way up through Oklahoma and bowed out towards the Austin area. More flooding has already severely clogged up roads in the area this morning (something like 5-7 inches fell overnight).
— Alan
Jesus Christ, Los Angeles.
Yep. Angelenos are worse than Bay Areans…and that’s saying something.
