© Mt. Rainier National ParkThe snow is now gone from Paradise Ranger Station
The snowpack is considered gone when less than 2 inches of water equivalent snow are observed at the weather station, which sits at 5,400 feet along Mt. Rainier National Park.
The July 21 meltout is later than the typical date of July 11th, though the past 40 years the average meltout date was around July 13th, according to research meteorologist Mark Albright.
The snow has melted out as early as May 24th in 1941 (and it was May 27 in the ultra mild winter of 2015) and as late as August 25th in 1974.
Long range forecasts are trending toward a possible La Nina winter which would give high odds of an above-normal snowpack and that the snow will hang out at Paradise next summer beyond its usual meltout date as well.
Reader Comments
Why am I still here? Good question.
RC
what i have noticed is the electrical storms everywhere are getting intense.
world records being set for size and longevity..... and more people getting struck everywhere. don't know if the more people getting struck everywhere is a new phenomenon or just one more readily apparent since the advent of cell phones and internet.
but yeah, momma getting angry with the babies.
I lived for ten years in tropical Darwin and we loved watching the electrical storms. Light displays. In the 90s.
introduce high current to the right mix of gases and elements and you can and will get RNA and other organic molecules to precipitate. 4-5% by volume is converted if i remember correctly.
look up the Miller-Urey experiments that were conducted way back in 1953.
if you are so inclined.
Other folks know better than I do.
I once had some really low flying planes chemtrailing my general neighborhood ~ 2009. The next day, all over the yards were white 'puffs' that looked like (from a distance) as though they were laundry lint. They weren't. They looked like rainbow/ iridescent colored super slender fibers, just like folks who get Morgellons disease display. (I just sadly found out that Joni Mitchell has it.) From that article: [Link] I was angry I did not keep a sample from that fallout! Apologies.
R.C.
it melted and disappeared after about thirty seconds. strangest thing i ever seen weather related.
it was perfectly translucent.