Just for Fun - Historic Snow

[KQ]

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/histori...s/wea00958.jpg
Standing tall on North Dakota snow A March 1966 blizzard nearly buried utility poles. Caption jokingly read "I believe there is a train under here somewhere!"



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Red Cross workers search for victims buried in cars following snowfall during the Blizzard of "77." Only about 12 inches of new snow fell during this event but high winds coupled with existing snow in western New York and accumulated snow on the surface of frozen Lake Erie combined to cause major difficulties.



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Snow on trees at the Paradise Inn, Mount Rainier, Washington. In the winter of 1916-1917, 789.5 inches of snow fell at Paradise Inn. At the time of the photo , the snow was approximately 27 feet deep. In: "Monthly Weather Review," July 1918, p. 330.


http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/blizzard_1888a.jpg
The Great Blizzard of 12 March 1888. New York, New York.


http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/blizzard_1917b.jpg
Cleared train tracks in the Sierra Nevada at Blue Canyon, California, after a snow storm in 1917.

[board]

I said GOD DAMN !

[CaddyDaddy77]

Cool pics KQ, where di you find them? The Noaa site or another link?

[altagirl]

http://www.altahistory.org/photogallery/roadjumpalf.jpg

Alf Engen jumping the road in LCC.

[Buzzworthy]

POTD for sure!!!

Now that is some stoke, KQ.

Very cool.

[KQ]

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
Cool pics KQ, where di you find them? The Noaa site or another link?

Most of them came from here:

NOAA

But I also found some here:

NSIDC

[The AD]

I remember that 1977 blizzard, or at least another big one around that time. I lived in Michigan in an area that got quite a bit of lake effect snow. The thing that's most etched in my mind is my dad opening the garage door and seeing snow several feet deep. I remember it took days to dig out. Just as the caption says, drifting was the most incredible thing. There were drifts that reached the eaves of our one story house.

As a kid it was very cool

EDIT: looks like it actually occurred in January of '78. I actually found a story on the web with a photo very much like my memory of the sotrm: http://www.record-eagle.com/feech/blizz78/27bliz.htm
http://www.record-eagle.com/feech/blizz78/garage.jpg

[altagirl]

Originally posted by The AD
I remember that 1977 blizzard, or at least another big one around that time. I lived in Michigan in an area that got quite a bit of lake effect snow. The thing that's most etched in my mind is my dad opening the garage door and seeing snow several feet deep. I remember it took days to dig out. Just as the caption says, drifting was the most incredible thing. There were drifts that reached the eaves of our one story house.

As a kid it was very cool

I remember something like that too. The whole back side of our house was under one big wind drift. This was in Brighton, MI and would have been around 1977, because there's a picture where my dad and I dug a tunnel to the sliding glass door on the porch so we could see inside the house and I was waving to my newborn sister through the window.

Oh, and my pic is from Alta's historical society.

[The AD]

Originally posted by altagirl
This was in Brighton, MI

I lived near Kalamazoo, MI at the time.

I know my dad has a bunch of slides he took at the time. I'll have to ask him to dig them up sometime. I wonder if it will be as impressive to me now as it was when I was 7?

[KQ]

When I was a kid I seem to remember having snow more often than not during December and January. Now the news service treats it like it's an unusual event for our area (I was born and raised here).

With our recent "storm" they keep talking about the snow storm of 1997 but does anyone remember the storm of December 18, 1990?

That's when the "Arctic Express" moved in with no warning and blasted us with blowing snow. It moved in around 1:00pm on a work day and shut down the evening commute (then it hit again 10 days later). Nightmare! I remember having to wear my ski goggles just to walk to the grocery store. It was so windy and there was so much snow coming down that without my goggles I couldn't see a thing.

I want more snow!!!!!!!!

[backpack]

http://content.lib.utah.edu/Photo_Ar.../image/420.jpg
"Alf Engen testing early snows in Snow Basin" -nov 1940

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"Ski tours among the clouds in Ogden's Snow Basin." 1940s-1950s

[altagirl]

Originally posted by The AD
I lived near Kalamazoo, MI at the time.

I know my dad has a bunch of slides he took at the time. I'll have to ask him to dig them up sometime. I wonder if it will be as impressive to me now as it was when I was 7?

I know what you mean. I remember having a TON of snow in winters as a kid. We built our own ice skating rink (farm tarp, 2x6s and a sprinkler) and luge run? (not sure what to call it but it was the massive pile of snow from the snowblower and we shaped it and watered it and banked the turns so you could snake through the backyard on a saucer. In my mind it was enormous... wish I had a picture.

[Superstar Punani]

Old School!


Jerry Hiatt, Sugar Bowl, California 1949
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At04.jpg

Joe Marrilac, Squaw Valley, California 1952
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At06.jpg

The short bus
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At07.jpg

Otto Lang, Sun Valley, 1938
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At08.jpg

Splat, circa 1920s
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At10.jpg

[KQ]

February 6, 1989

much of the western half of the country was in the midst of one of the most severe arctic outbreaks of the century. Temperatures in the Yukon of western Canada were comparable to those prior to the arctic blasts of December 1983, and winds above 100 mph ushered the bitterly cold air into western Montana. 41 cities reported record low temperatures for the date. Lows of 30 degrees below zero at Ely, Nevada and 33 degrees below zero at Richfield, Utah were all-time records for those locations. Lows of 31 degrees at San Francisco, California and 15 degrees below zero at Reno, Nevada were February records. Logan Canyon, Utah was the cold spot in the nations, with a reading of 54 degrees below zero, and Craig, Colorado reported a low of 51 degrees below zero.


(found this information on a cool historic weather site. Check out the weather events for Dec/Jan. There are some wild amounts of snowfall and low temps Intellicast Almanac )

[KQ]

February 24, 1994

the Crystal Mountain ski resort in Washington State recorded 65 inches of snow in a 24 hour period, the state record for 24 hour snowfall.

[The AD]

Originally posted by Punani
Old School!
Splat, circa 1920s
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At10.jpg

This picture of Atkinson with his Speed Graphic ought to make any modern ski photographer happy that the 35mm camera with motor drive was invented.

Of course he could blow up his shots pretty big. It probably uses 4"x5" sheet film.

[Superstar Punani]

Anthony Lakes, Oregon 1944
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At01.jpg

Early ski porn
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Ski%20Pinup.jpg

[grrrr]

Originally posted by KQ
February 6, 1989

much of the western half of the country was in the midst of one of the most severe arctic outbreaks of the century.

I was living in Homer Alaska during this episode. Actually, I was living in a cabin in the hills above Homer. We had a new record of -27 at sea level. At my cabin, the temperature didn't rise above -40 for ten straight days.

I would stoke the fire at midnight, and the temperature in the loft would be hovering near zero by 7am.

[2stix]

Early ski porn
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Ski%20Pinup.jpg [/B][/QUOTE]


haha go figure Punani would find this one

[el_jefe]

The infamous "Inferno" race down Tuckerman's Ravine - date unknown...