I'm not aware of other wind damage, but i've been chilling on days off in victor. Sounded like prolonged 90+ or so.
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190 maybe.
Hopefully this won't happen in early March.
Coming back for more Tetons!
Even a little bit of freezing rain can add a huge load to large powerlines like that. Combine that with 90+ mph wind and a cascading failure like that is a definite possibility. Here is damage to large power transmission towers in Quebec caused by just ice.
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Somebody has to say it - climate change is happening in front of our eyes. Rain and freezing rain in Jackson in early February? WTF? I lived there for most of the 80's and it never rained in winter. Ever. Now it is common. Imagine a few more degrees average increase.
New York was 62F today.
Somehow over night it'll drop 35F and snow 8-11" tomorrow.
Unbelievable.
You have to remember that every nuance of the weather is irrefutable proof of impending climate apocalypse to a sensitive snowflake. No matter they have had over 400" so far this winter, they have perfect memories of "how it used to be" and what "normal" is. They know more from their couple decades of worldly existence than all the evidence of climate change contained in the geologic record ya know....
The weather is supposed to do what they want it to do now! Or else some high and mighty priest from the holy church of global warming saints must do something now! Mainly empty virtue signaling. That seems to placate them until the next balls deep pow day, which in Jackson Hole I would say will be Tuesday. Enjoy it, you could be up here with WMD and I "living the dream" at Bridger with less than 130" so far for the season!
Most people know that no single weather event represents global warming, just like the big winter we are having in much of the west doesn't do the slightest thing to disprove the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
oh, and believing in science doesn't make one a sensitive snowflake.
Seems the 17BBI storm has made its way east to the site of 17BBIJH
Enjoy!
And I love when an unusual weather event occurs the sensitive snowflake always turns to global warming... No doubt weather patterns are changing, but not every Fing weather event is due to global warming...
Good luck to JH residents as being w/o power that long really sucks...
I like science and weather (always chaotic)
Just got another alert that the snake river canyon is closed and Teton pass will be closed until Sat 2/11!
I'm hunkered down at home- able to still work thnx to gotomypc - most of my east coast coworkers are working from home today too bc they're getting hit with a big storm
Tone, you've been around Bridger for a long time. You haven't noticed how many more above freezing days we get now, and how rain is no longer uncommon in the mountains (like today and tonight's forecast)? In Montana the average temperature has increased 2 degrees this century according to the EPA. Or that our snowfall for the past 8 years is down more than 20%? ( http://m.outsidebozeman.com/?url=htt...referrer=#2522)
The last three years have been the warmest ever recorded globally, and this one probably will top those. You haven't noticed how spring melts come earlier every year (15 days earlier on average https://www.google.com/amp/billingsg...lient=safari)?
Dude, the climate is changing and it is going to continue to change and it is going to affect your skiing (and fishing and farming and...). If believing in science makes me a snowflake, let it snow!
And yes I was in Jackson in 1986 for that big storm. I was injured and in bed recovering so wasn't skiing, but we got a ton of snow and all the passes and the airport were closed. I remember it was warm but didn't remember rain as I couldn't leave the house. That was one storm that decade. Even still, rain in winter was unusual then. Not so much now. Wyoming's temperatures have increased too.
Whether this was a product of climate change or not, who knows, who cares. It was an anomaly, anomalies happen. But to use the geological record as an evidence against climate change is wrong. In the last 800,000 years it hasn't been this high. Humans did not live 800,000 years ago. The earth doesn't care what we do, we aren't destroying the earth. We are destroying where we can live, and eventually, the climate will be unable to sustain our population. The earth will shake us off, and over millions of years normalize. But for the sake of self preservation, lets see where all this pesky CO2 comes from.
OCTANE:
C18H18 + (O2+3.76N2) = CO2 + H2O + N2
CETANE:
2 C16H34 + 49 O2 = 32 CO2 + 34 H2O
METHANE:
CH4 + O2 = CO2 + H20
It's fairly simple stoichiometry that shows how in the last 200 or so years CO2 levels have risen. Generally, in our past, higher CO2 levels mean higher average temp. (Dinosaurs in eastern Montana, giant bugs, a lot of ferns) It's not rocket science to see where this is going, shit its not even rock science. I generally don't like to argue about this because it only adds validation that there are two sides, but come the fuck on. Climate change deniers should be in the same boat as the flat earthers, ridiculed for stupidity. And though you may do really cool stuff on a pair of skis, your critical thinking skills and gullibility should be mocked.
^^^Agree. Thank you.
Back on topic we just canceled our flight and hotel reservations for tomorrow and are probably rebooking for March, everybody was good about rebooking.
^^^It definitely does, but so does soccer games...etc.
sounds good. I know we are not top priority but just wanted to throw it out there
this place got cunted up quick
i heard the ski area was going to stay open an extra week because of this.
I can see the Alpenrose breakfast buffet being a bit sparse over the next few days if the walk in is down.
It could dampen lunchtime plans for anyone planning to have schinkenwurst and souse sandwiches on the hill.
There's a tool I haven't heard mention of in a long while. Is it really that hard to enable remote desktop access for Windows/Mac machines these days, or get sshd running on Linux? Apparently so :tongue:
They probably don't want the post-BBI sickness that's making the rounds, either
In other news, TGR is streaming "The Big One" until the resort reopens, so that's nice:
http://www.tetongravity.com/films/the-big-one/watch
Well, have fun in the mud, locals.
Down to 5 degrees on Saturday night. Guessing there will be a lot of frozen pipes. :(
Weird the webcams at JH aren't working. Anyone else have this problem?
They have no power to run the webcams
The alpenhof tram cam is also frozen from the other evening. Looks like it was windy [emoji12]
http://www.alpenhoflodge.com/about/jh-tramcam/