2022 - How's the Weather Where You Are?

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...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
11 AM MST FRIDAY...

* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulation 2 to 5 inches
valley floors, 4 to 8 inches benches, Uinta County, and Wasatch
Back, except up to 12 inches Park City. Strong wind gusts will
accompany the frontal passage.
so will the snow settle if you're expecting strong winds ?
 
so will the snow settle if you're expecting strong winds ?
Yes, at least some. Our snow is usually quite dry and powdery. The wind does a good job of rearranging it. Deep snow drifts in places, little or none in others.

On average it takes 10 to 12 inches of snow to make an inch of water. So it will keep on settling until it melts.

In the valley we get less snow and it usually melts off so our ground is bare about half the winter. In the mountains where most of the snow falls it will keep accumulating and getting deeper until sometime in spring, usually starts to melt in April. Most years we can see snow in the mountains well into July, even August some years.

This is exactly the kind of storm we need to help relieve the drought, but it will take a dozen or more of these to do it.
 
Yes, at least some. Our snow is usually quite dry and powdery. The wind does a good job of rearranging it. Deep snow drifts in places, little or none in others.

On average it takes 10 to 12 inches of snow to make an inch of water. So it will keep on settling until it melts.

In the valley we get less snow and it usually melts off so our ground is bare about half the winter. In the mountains where most of the snow falls it will keep accumulating and getting deeper until sometime in spring, usually starts to melt in April. Most years we can see snow in the mountains well into July, even August some years.

This is exactly the kind of storm we need to help relieve the drought, but it will take a dozen or more of these to do it.
that's the drawback we have living at the highest point of our area.. we get all the snow settling and in the valley they barely get any... however our payoff is that when it rains , it never floods, whereas it always does in the Valley..
 
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