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Post by Steelernation on Apr 5, 2018 15:57:35 GMT -5
Seasonal snowfall so far through April 5.
November: 2.6” (7 cm)
December: 34.7” (88 cm)
January: 32.9” (84 cm)
February: 15.7” (40 cm)
March: 29.4” (75 cm)
April: 1.7” (3 cm)
Total: 117.0” (297 cm)
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Post by sari on Apr 5, 2018 16:00:33 GMT -5
This video was recorded travelling west along a short section of Missouri Route 45 in southern Platte County, near Parkville, at about 4:45pm today after most of the snow had stopped falling. This area seems to have received the most snow out of anywhere near me, likely because just to the right of me at about 0:05 is a small rise that forms one of the highest points in the area (second only to the steep hill in the Riss Lake area of Parkville, which Gior referred to as "cul-de-sac hell"). Nice! Also, nice touch making it feel like I'm on a boat. Sorry, I was holding the camera. I probably should have taped it to something, or at the very least held it in my other (more stable) hand. |
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Post by Ariete on Apr 5, 2018 16:19:55 GMT -5
Sorry, I was holding the camera. I probably should have taped it to something, or at the very least held it in my other (more stable) hand. Yes I realised that  |
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Post by Babu on Apr 6, 2018 1:31:36 GMT -5
It's snowed 21cm since a couple of days ago and is still snowing. We've surpassed our previous maximun depth of the season - in April.
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Post by Nidaros on Apr 6, 2018 13:15:03 GMT -5
Wet snow falling yesterday and last night, really bad weather yesterday. Mostly rain close to the fjord. Some accumulation on my property. Mostly gone now.
Snow depth recorded April 6th:
2 cm - Trondheim (Lade, 13 m)
67 cm - Trondheim (Saupstad, 135 m)
4 cm - Trondheim (Leinstrad S of the city proper)
0 cm - Trondheim Airport/Værnes
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38 cm - Oslo (94 m)
0 cm - Bergen (2 cm Apr 4th, only lying snow since Mar 19th)
100 cm - Tromsø (100 m)
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Post by Babu on Apr 7, 2018 6:55:13 GMT -5
Liquid equivalent snow cover on April 3rd compared to normal.  |
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Post by nei on Apr 8, 2018 13:47:45 GMT -5
8 inches of snow in southern Vermont but this is at almost 2000 feet
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Post by Ariete on Apr 8, 2018 13:55:03 GMT -5
Snow gone almost completely now.
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Post by boombo on Apr 11, 2018 6:41:52 GMT -5
Rovaniemi's at 97 cm now down from a final peak of 104 cm, but the thaw is really going to be on this coming week with lots of 8C and sunny days in the forecast. As for Kilpisjärvi, only 70 cm there down from a peak of 82 cm, but not that much is going to melt any time soon with the colder weather up there so this time next week their snow totals might be pretty similar. |
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Post by Babu on Apr 11, 2018 8:45:28 GMT -5
We were 112cm at our peak on our backyard five days ago. I wonder if it's below 100cm yet
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Post by Steelernation on Apr 11, 2018 14:29:51 GMT -5
Seasonal snowfall so far through April 11. November: 2.6” (7 cm) December: 34.7” (88 cm) January: 32.9” (84 cm) February: 15.7” (40 cm) March: 29.4” (75 cm) April: 3.9” (9 cm) Total: 119.2” (303 cm)Well we’ve had more snow, updated with new, hopefully final totals. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 14:37:51 GMT -5
today's snow map  |
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Post by Ariete on Apr 11, 2018 14:42:04 GMT -5
Rovaniemi's at 97 cm now down from a final peak of 104 cm, but the thaw is really going to be on this coming week with lots of 8C and sunny days in the forecast. As for Kilpisjärvi, only 70 cm there down from a peak of 82 cm, but not that much is going to melt any time soon with the colder weather up there so this time next week their snow totals might be pretty similar. Average for Rovaniemi this time of the year is around 50 cm, so almost double as usual. Kilpisjärvi's snow can well linger on until June, so they are not in a hurry yet. |
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Post by boombo on Apr 11, 2018 15:12:43 GMT -5
Rovaniemi's at 97 cm now down from a final peak of 104 cm, but the thaw is really going to be on this coming week with lots of 8C and sunny days in the forecast. As for Kilpisjärvi, only 70 cm there down from a peak of 82 cm, but not that much is going to melt any time soon with the colder weather up there so this time next week their snow totals might be pretty similar. Average for Rovaniemi this time of the year is around 50 cm, so almost double as usual. Kilpisjärvi's snow can well linger on until June, so they are not in a hurry yet. 50 cm? I suppose I've only taken notice of it when it's been a snowy year so my perspective is a bit skewed, I remember last year it had huge amounts of snow. Kilpisjärvi's snow finally melted on either 10 or 11 June last year IIRC, thought they might be on track to make it to midsummer but then it got wiped out in a sudden warm spell  |
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Post by Ariete on Apr 11, 2018 16:07:04 GMT -5
Only 50 cm? I suppose I've only taken notice of it when it's been a snowy year so my perspective is a bit skewed, I remember last year it had huge amounts of snow. Kilpisjärvi's snow finally melted on either 10 or 11 June last year IIRC, thought they might be on track to make it to midsummer but then it got wiped out in a sudden warm spell It has been snowier than normal again up north, just like last year. Yes, apparently 11 June in Kilpisjärvi. |
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Post by Babu on Apr 12, 2018 13:01:43 GMT -5
On the 6th of April, our yard recorded its seasonal record of 112cm (which is probably the most we've had in many years, possibly equalled in 2010/11; otherwise it could be the highest since either 87/88 or 65/66).
Now, six days later, the snow depth is about 97cm. So even though the average high has been about 6-7'C since then in Tavelsjö, with sunny conditions every day, only 15cm has melted away.
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Post by urania93 on Apr 13, 2018 15:10:04 GMT -5
In here it rained all over the week, but on the top of the mountains it snowed really a lot. Right now at altitudes of 2000 m and above there are about 2-3 meters of snow. Considering the relatively mild temperatures, the avalanche risk is actually very high, and in fact this afternoon two avalanches came down (one after the other along the same path) blocking a main mountain road in here. It less dangerous than how it sounds, it has just blocked that road and no house is in danger, but it is still quite impressive. Online there are a couple of videos of the second avalanche coming down, but I can't find a youtube link. In here there is the original facebook video link, while in here there is the same video from a news web site (I hope that at least one of the two links works also in other countries, many local sources have the bad habit to make videos available only in here). |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 13, 2018 15:53:27 GMT -5
In here it rained all over the week, but on the top of the mountains it snowed really a lot. Right now at altitudes of 2000 m and above there are about 2-3 meters of snow. Considering the relatively mild temperatures, the avalanche risk is actually very high, and in fact this afternoon two avalanches came down (one after the other along the same path) blocking a main mountain road in here. It less dangerous than how it sounds, it has just blocked that road and no house is in danger, but it is still quite impressive. Online there are a couple of videos of the second avalanche coming down, but I can't find a youtube link. In here there is the original facebook video link, while in here there is the same video from a news web site (I hope that at least one of the two links works also in other countries, many local sources have the bad habit to make videos available only in here). Interesting; I didn't think about it previously but now when you say it, I imagine that with orographic lift and lowland temps beneath 10°C with torrential rain even in April that can really cause some trouble up there! If it was constant heavy snowfall on higher elevations on the nearest mountains surrounding your valley due to a winter like say the monster cold one of 1942, would your area be in danger of avalanches too? |
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Post by urania93 on Apr 14, 2018 4:17:23 GMT -5
Interesting; I didn't think about it previously but now when you say it, I imagine that with orographic lift and lowland temps beneath 10°C with torrential rain even in April that can really cause some trouble up there! If it was constant heavy snowfall on higher elevations on the nearest mountains surrounding your valley due to a winter like say the monster cold one of 1942, would your area be in danger of avalanches too? Actually a cold winter is not a particularly important factor in avalanche risk, because when it is really cold it usually doesn't snow much (high snow falls in here are usually associated with southern winds) and the snow is relatively stable. Usually avalanches are favoured by intense snowfalls in a short time interval and by warm temperatures which makes the snow heavier/wetter. Sudden increasing of temperature where there is a lot of snow, like in foehn wind days or when it start to rain on the snow, are actually the worst situations. For example this year the avalanches risk was much higher during the warm and rainy (low altitude) /snowy (high altitude) period in the first half of January than during the cold wave at the end of February. Generally speaking at altitudes of about 2000 m and above (the altitude from which, in my experience, avalanches are more likely to form in here) snow days are normal from September to May, so a colder weather than usual wouldn't make the snow season much longer neither. Anyway, my place and the other villages at the base of a mountain side are relatively protected by all the trees on the mountain side itself (trees grow up to 2000 m). An avalanche can break down trees and drag them down with the snow mass, but the presence of trees also slows it down a lot and makes it stop somewhere along the mountain side. At this point the first avalanche has created a sort of tree-free corridor, and if a second avalanche detached from the same area of the mountain side it wouldn't be slowed down by trees anymore and it would thus be more likely to reach lower altitudes than the first one. With a series of avalanches along the same path (even in following years, because trees takes a quite long time for growing up again) the avalanches can actually reach also the bottom of the valley, and it happened a couple of times already. Actually, avalanches tend to always come down along few paths, on the mountain side where my village is there are about 3/4 of them for example, and historically the people have been intelligent enough to avoid to build their houses along any of these avalanche paths. So all the villages and towns at about my altitude are relatively safe from avalanches, and in addition we also organised evacuation plans for the days in which the risk is too high. In the recent years for example there were quite a lot of these avalanches in winter 08/09, in the 90s an avalanche arrived near the bottom of the valley (I don't remember when, I was too young) and when my dad was a child one avalanche managed to reach the little river in the middle of the valley (passing just north of my village). Both these last two avalanches came down along the same path as yesterday's one. Anyway, about that avalanche it seemed that snow continued to come down even after the end of the previous video (here). The guy who made that video is just crazy, even if the avalanche is coming down following a quite precise path I would not stay to close to it... |
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Post by urania93 on Apr 14, 2018 5:32:14 GMT -5
I also managed to take a picture of the whole path followed by the avalanche.  Commented picture: red arrows = last avalanche, blue arrow = paths of old avalanches  |
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