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10-22-2021, 06:33 AM #101Registered User
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It’s the color. We get dust every once and awhile. It fucks up the snowpack.
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10-22-2021, 08:50 AM #102
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10-22-2021, 09:52 AM #103
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10-22-2021, 09:58 AM #104
The dust is especially noticeable in the spring. Sometimes it can make the snowpack look orangish-pink:
It's not very scientific, but my own anecdotal experience is the later the Crest is rideable snow free the more stable the snowpack. Last year the Crest was shut down in October versus the season a few years ago when we had zero avi deaths it was rideable until November 16, the morning of the seasons first big storm.
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10-22-2021, 10:17 AM #105Registered User
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Are you referring to watermelon snow? That's algae.
The drying up of the GSL has more implications than just the snowpack. First, it's a positive feedback loop, the drier it is the more likely dust will get kicked up which consequently makes the snow melt faster and less precip which contributes to less water going to the great salt lake. The real issue is there's a lot of toxins on the west side of the lake that is now being exposed, then becoming airborne and dropping in the Wasatch, SL valley, PC, etc.
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10-22-2021, 10:26 AM #106
I'm not sure if the pink hue in the photo above (the color could look different on other screens) is algae because when the color change happens throughout the Wasatch it's usually preceded by sustained wind. Maybe it's algae since that can happen too, but I think it's dust blown in from the desert.
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10-22-2021, 10:46 AM #107Registered User
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Exactly this. The Salt Lake Tribune has had some good articles recently about GSL. The NOAA extended winter weather forecast this season doesn't look promising calling for higher than normal temperatures and a good chance of below average snow. Hopefully they are wrong. What would another bad winter be like for our water situation and the GSL
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10-22-2021, 11:01 AM #108Registered User
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I thought GSL drying was mostly attributable to farmers draining water for crops, sometimes alfalfa exported to China.
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10-22-2021, 11:13 AM #109
That's my recollection as well. Early snow is almost always followed by an extended dry spell that rots it to sugar. Ideal scenario is not a flake until Nov. 15, then turn on the faucet.
It's amazing to see people finally getting concerned about the GSL drying up. I've been beating that drum for 15 years. Over the years I've asked many, many people here if they've ever heard of the Owens Lake saga and never gotten an affirmative response. LAMWD has spent billions trying to fix the dust problem in the Owens Valley, largely without success, and the GSL is ~15x larger. GSL dries up and the Wasatch Front is proper fucked (never mind that it would also be an ecological catastrophe with global implications for migratory bird populations).
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10-22-2021, 11:15 AM #110
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10-22-2021, 04:51 PM #111Registered User
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10-23-2021, 08:37 AM #112Registered User
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We should ask the residents that lived by Lake Urmia in Iran what it’s like living next to a dry lake. That lake lost something like 95% of its volume in 20 years.
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10-23-2021, 12:08 PM #113
Aral Sea satellite image on a windy day: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/im...r-the-aral-sea
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10-23-2021, 06:54 PM #114
Farmers use salt water to irrigate crops?
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10-23-2021, 07:00 PM #115
Water doesn’t reach the GSL due to human usage. 85%of which is used for agriculture. Obviously you’re a bumpkin since your level of comprehension is zero
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10-23-2021, 07:27 PM #116
lol yeah do you think the GSL is filled with water magically transported from the ocean or something?
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10-23-2021, 09:07 PM #117Registered User
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Speaking of Idaho, water, and farmers, I was up in the Tetons last month and was surprised to find that almost all of Jackson lake (the dam-created lake) is dry. It's usually 37 feet deep. Talking to a ranger, apparently Idaho built the dam and retains water rights from the Snake River. Idaho farmers have drained the entire damm(n)ed lake, and it will take at least a few years to refill.
More info: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/...c0ddcc423.html
Anyways, it sure felt like winter in the mountains today. Alta sesh is still in session, although it's getting a little bit monotonous. The best snow this past week has been the northeast aspects. Today after 3 or 4 inches of snow, it was dust on supportable crust.
Low viz baldy shoulder and some nice clouds driving down:
Had a decent gathering of mags at the BD swap. Rain shut everything down pretty early.
Are we really getting 20 inches this week?
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10-23-2021, 09:20 PM #118
reading....good...
https://www.livescience.com/56941-great-salt-lake.html
https://extension.usu.edu/waterquali...ajorwatersheds
The school across the street from me in Sandy waters their approximately 10 soccer worth of fields during the summer so much that (which go virtually unused all year) enough to where mushrooms are starting to grow all over!... it is really sickening the waste of water that goes into those fields...the grass grows so fast and thick its ridiculous, I walk my dog there almost on a daily basis....maybe not a huge deal in itself but just one example of which i'm sure there are at least thousands similar situations in the the SLC valley....protecting the GSL should be a top priority
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10-23-2021, 10:17 PM #119
Wasatch 21/22 - We're All Here 'Cause We're Not All There!
automatic sprinklers water the sidewalks, as in literally only hit the sidewalks, at night in the rain and at 4pm in august when it’s 100F, in my part of town. I’m no carl fisher or whatever but it is a bit wild how cheap city water is and how little the city seems to care about how it is used.
our water main broke and just leaked full volume into the ground for a week and my water bill wasn’t over $100 lol. sure seems like there’s large middle ground between what we have now and “strict environmentalism” or whatever
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10-24-2021, 06:46 AM #120
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10-24-2021, 02:07 PM #121
Wasatch 21/22 - We're All Here 'Cause We're Not All There!
Another good morning at Alta Good refresh of 3-6 and sun stayed off the snow for a while.
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10-25-2021, 09:02 AM #122Registered User
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10-25-2021, 09:40 AM #123
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10-25-2021, 10:25 AM #124
Le sigh. Although, the WXMaps models are showing a relatively active pattern persisting through November 10: http://wxmaps.org/outlooks.php
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10-25-2021, 10:29 AM #125
I heard on the news today that this is the wettest Oct. on record that the Wasatch has ever had
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