I grew up near Menomonie, WI in the freezing cold north, but this year was too warm for the lake ice to form to hold their “when will this old junker car fall through” raffle. They stopped a similar tradition a few years ago in my VT town — too warm.
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Sad... My scientist brain can't help but think that if this thing has been going on long enough, it would be interesting to plot the dates at which the car fell through over and see if we see the same trend as the cherry peak blossom in Japan... (https://kottke.org/24/03/0044147-a-graph-with-data-stretch)
I mean … yes, a sad indication of the climate emergency, but all those cars ending up in the bottom of a lake … it’s good that that’s not happening any more, right?
I grew up in the South but live in Colorado now so I have a snow-related question for folks from cold-weather regions:
I've had 3in and 2in snowfalls over the last couple of weeks, but it was all gone from my yard within an hour or two and the ground was left bone-dry like none of the snow soaked in. Is it normal to get a few inches of snow but have it all sublimate like that?
Life-long cold-weather region inhabitant: If the ground is not frozen (and this takes a while at the start of winter, and is disrupted by warming temps/thaws and of course the coming of spring), the snow melts on contact with the warm earth, especially when it falls in such small quantities. The snow ratio (the percentage of water in snow) varies but 2-3 inches of snow doesn't hold much water. Since Colorado is very dry, and also pretty sunny, I'd say the snow melted but then evaporated before it could be absorbed by the earth. It might have been as little as .1-.2" of water. Is it normal? It's definitely the new normal to have melting at this time of year. :(
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