It's snowing in Utah

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Top of Collins at Alta right now:

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It's been raining a lot since late yesterday -- 1.142" of rain so far at my house, which is like a biblical flood by Utah standards. For the weather weenies here's the output from my own home weather station -- I just got the new station software tweaked last night:

http://www.utahskiandsnowboard.com/weather/wx.htm

Currenly 53 at the house at 5,000 feet and 33 at the Collins snow plot site at Alta, ~9,300 feet.
 
jasoncapecod":24woq3oc said:
great looking software... did it interface easily with your weather station...
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Figures that a windsurfer would appreciate that. :wink: It interfaced easily with the station (an Oregon Scientific WMR-968), but setup to make it do what I want it to is ridiculously complicated. That webpage is the package default -- I haven't messed with the webpage layout or content yet. The package reminds me of a New England house where extensions were added willy-nilly and nothing quite seems to fit together properly. I was using FreeWx-Wi, but my outdoor thermometer/hygrometer sensor failed and I replaced it with a different sensor that cost one-fourth of what the original one did, only to find out that it transmits on a different channel than the default outdoor sensor and FreeWx-Wi lacks the ability to set a different channel as the default outdoor channel. As a result, the station has been offline for some time as I sought out alternatives. It's now rapid-fire broadcasting to Weather Underground as station KUTSALTL26 ( http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... KUTSALTL26 ) but I just had to reboot the desktop machine, dammit. :twisted: (That has nothing to do with this software, and everything to do with an ancient and tired desktop with a buggy motherboard.)

Now that the sun has come out I'm staring out my kitchen window at a dusting of snow on Mt. Olympus and high in Nef's Canyon.
 
oooooow - ya hiked up to watsons early this afternoon. didn't see a soul on the mtn. very placid built a snow man out in front of watsons to stand guard and keep an eye on things . upon arrival back at g.m.d. i found mr & mrs skidog in the parking lot up to check out the sept. 1 snow. had pleasentrys with them for a few min. and departed.
 
Bobby Danger":24bhhp4c said:
oooooow - ya hiked up to watsons early this afternoon. didn't see a soul on the mtn. very placid built a snow man out in front of watsons to stand guard and keep an eye on things . upon arrival back at g.m.d. i found mr & mrs skidog in the parking lot up to check out the sept. 1 snow. had pleasentrys with them for a few min. and departed.
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I figured you'd be up there. :lol: Now we just need to:

1. Get you a digital camera; and
2. Teach you how to upload photos.
 
easy on the electronics i'm still getting used to a posting station that has answers before i get done asking a question. but i sure would have liked to have had a camera
 
Its ok that BobbyD is out of touch electronically. I went up specifically to take pics.

heres my fav.

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Matt
 
Looking out the office window at the Uintas, they are far whiter than the Wasatch are right now...
 
Skidog":2lomfgw2 said:
higher too. ;-)
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Not the ones that Salida can see from his office. The western Uintas are all in the high 10s/low 11s. The 13s don't come until the middle part of the range, which is too far east to be seen from Park City.
 
Admin":a0gwo612 said:
Skidog":a0gwo612 said:
higher too. ;-)
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Not the ones that Salida can see from his office. The western Uintas are all in the high 10s/low 11s. The 13s don't come until the middle part of the range, which is too far east to be seen from Park City.
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Very true. Although it certainly helps to have a high plateau like the uintas have, versus the low starting points for the wasatch.
 
Admin":165l5occ said:
Skidog":165l5occ said:
higher too. ;-)
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Not the ones that Salida can see from his office. The western Uintas are all in the high 10s/low 11s. The 13s don't come until the middle part of the range, which is too far east to be seen from Park City.
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Ahhh yes...I didnt think about that....oh well...so what...they got more snow there...still no lift... ;)

M
 
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