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Monday Dec 26, 2016 #
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Just back from skiing, getting home as dusk was meeting nightfall. The current temperature in town is 19F while the "feels like" temperature is 4F. This was one of those times when it really did feel much more like the "feels like" temperature; I wouldn't have guessed it was still as warm as 19F.
It was hard to tell how much new snow we got up top. In places every single flake of new snow had been scoured away and in other places there was some pretty good drifting.
It was obvious the stronger winds that were kicking up towards the latter part of my running yesterday did not abate during the night, and hit the pine forest at Happy Jack with devastating effect. Just on the parts of the trail net I skied on today there was at least 39 trees that had come down across the trails, and there was a huge amount of various debris strewn everywhere. So, while the new snow mostly buried the debris from the prior wind storm, now we need some more snow to bury the new batch of debris.
After these two pretty big wind storms, it might seem like all the trees that were ready to fall down have been blown down, but I am not at all confident that is true. The amount of trees that have blown down so far still only represent a relatively small percentage of the dead trees still standing. And sometimes live trees blow down, too.
It was hard to tell how much new snow we got up top. In places every single flake of new snow had been scoured away and in other places there was some pretty good drifting.
It was obvious the stronger winds that were kicking up towards the latter part of my running yesterday did not abate during the night, and hit the pine forest at Happy Jack with devastating effect. Just on the parts of the trail net I skied on today there was at least 39 trees that had come down across the trails, and there was a huge amount of various debris strewn everywhere. So, while the new snow mostly buried the debris from the prior wind storm, now we need some more snow to bury the new batch of debris.
After these two pretty big wind storms, it might seem like all the trees that were ready to fall down have been blown down, but I am not at all confident that is true. The amount of trees that have blown down so far still only represent a relatively small percentage of the dead trees still standing. And sometimes live trees blow down, too.