The Snow Thread

Let's see...
the point were I stood was probably at about 550 m of altitude, but the bottom of the valley rises quite a lot while moving toward that mountain. The bottom of the valley in correspondence with the avalanche is at about 650 m of altitude I think. As for the point where the avalanche stopped, I know for sure that the "road" line is at about 1000 m of altitude, so I would say that the avalanche stopped at about 850-800 m of altitude.

The area from which those avalanches are used to detach is in the 2000-2500 m of altitude range instead, and at that altitude spring is still a quite snowy season. So that spring in here is much rainier than winter, it is not so uncommon for places at that altitude to get more snow during the spring season than during winter. During the spring season the temperatures are higher too, and during sunny days the temperature can rise above 0°C even at those altitudes favouring the formation of avalanches, so I would say that the weather conditions of the first half of spring are the more likely to cause avalanches in here.

Snow depffffffffffff this morning:

And on the other side of the polluted algae shit pond:



67 cm in Ilomantsi Naarva, and 33 cm in Mekrijärvi.

The snow cover is gone in Umeå now though not once you leave its perimiters.

Well I thought we were done but now the NWS is calling for snow showers Saturday night and Sunday morning with a fucking 5 C high. At least there shouldn’t be any accumulation.

snow for the Berkshires; Adirondacks will get the most. Giorbanguly is missing out. Last one of the season?

Rovaniemi: 43 cm, that's still a lot of snow for May but it's going to melt quickly now with some rain and some 10C highs in the forecast.

Kilpisjärvi's taken a big hit as well, down to 37 cm there and it looks a bit dubious whether they'll get to the start of midnight sun on 22 May still with snow on the ground. They should overtake Rovaniemi this week but a lot depends on whether the precip forecast falls as snow or rain.

en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/weather/enonteki%C3%B6/kilpisj%C3%A4rvi?day=5&map=snowdepth¶meter=snowdepth

As of this morning, only a few traces of snow remain in the upper midwest. The rest would have melted off today as it reached the mid 20's in most of the area. There is still snow in Northern Ontario if this site is accurate for Canada.






Snow melt was very fast recently due to the warm temperatures. Scale was maxed out:
Snow depth past two weeks.
Snow melt past two weeks.



The northernmost parts of the map got their first lying snow in late October and except for a few days in early December they've had snow on the ground for 6 consecutive months. (1" or greater, trace doesn't count)
Isabella, Minnesota is usually the last weather station to lose their snow in the spring in Minnesota. They had snow cover from October 27th to April 25th and then the 26th-28th.
Gunflint, a weather station just south of the Canadian border, made it from October 27th to April 23rd.

Herman, Michigan had snow depth from October 25-26 and then October 28-May 1. That's 6 consecutive months at 46.7N!

As for cities,
Duluth, Minnesota had snow October 27 to November 26 and December 9 to April 21.
Marquette, Michigan had snow October 25th and 30th to November 4, November 9-24, December 7 to April 30

There's still a chance for more lying snow there, but the forecast looks warm for the near future.

Today's snow map. The bare ground creeps up along the Torne Valley, but Ilomantsi Pötsönvaara still going strong with 28 cm on the ground.