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Palm Tree guy, would you be interested in going on a road trip to Minnesota with me? https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/07/19/in-minnesota-you-can-still-find-a-skiing-spot-in-a-july-heat-wave-sort-of A field of snow has lasted into the latter half of July at Lutsen Mountains. It’s not much, but it’s still a significant amount of the fluffy stuff. “Enough snow for a snowball fight,” said Jim Vick, Lutsen’s marketing director. The patch on Mystery Mountain is some 20 feet in circumference and 8 feet deep and it’s slowly shrinking over the summer. Snow in that spot lasted until the end of June last year and early July the year before, Vick said.

Just came across this news of another de havilland beaver crashing in Alaska yesterday with a fatality. https://www.homernews.com/news/1-injured-in-tutka-bay-plane-accident/?fbclid=IwAR3ZCu-K1r0otj_X9SKQffSEHe8moU1hbRkVvdNbM5C51g_eNEJcW0tnekc

With the heat wave, I thought some might appreciate cooler thoughts. I just returned from a couple weeks in Colorado mountaineering. For the most part it was solid winter conditions- wore micro spikes and crampons for snowfield traverses, had to have ice axes for self arresting, and brought snowshoes but didn’t bring them when I actually needed them, would have worn them if I’d had them as postholing was a real problem in places. Climbed over a couple avalanche slides that were still 30-40’ deep with snow. Pictured is the alpine lake ‘emma’ near the base of mt democrat, still frozen solid. The snowfield I traversed to get to here was indistinguishable from mid / late winter. This lake would be liquid and materially all of the surrounding snow would be gone by this time any other year. There is a not insignificant chance some of this snowpack will hold on into the next winter season in Colorado as snow starts to happen typically in September occasionally at this elevation and above.

Sorry to hear that, hope their families and friends can find peace. I flew on a de havilland beaver (same as in this crash) last summer out of talkeetna Alaska, landing on the kahiltna glacier near mt Denali. Later that day that beaver crashed, and it and it’s occupants are forever entombed on the knife edge of a mountain where it crashed. It was very sobering being that close to death. The beaver is a popular bush plane but it’s my understanding it’s been out of production for quite some time. They are simple, non pressurized aircraft that are generally pretty reliable but not a lot of redundancy so if there’s a catastrophic failure the odds are poor. I’m not making any efforts to fly on one again in the future.

Warmth and tranquility over the gulf of Alaska are what drive the development and maintenance of the blob. Hope the pattern breaks down over Alaska before too long. Pretty epic fire season up there this year as well. Currently in Colorado and the snowpack is still alive and kicking at and above 12,000’/basically at the timberline and above.

Pics turned out great. Awful to hear about the crash though. Hoping you’re okay.

I just drove through what I believe to be a weak tornado but radar signature doesn’t really show it. Could have been straight line wind but it it was certainly spinning around me. I was just on my commute home when in a split second I was in it. Only about a mile from home. My truck was lifting, no hail, got home and saw my plate which definitely wasn’t like that when I left the office. Went back to where it was happening and the pictured damage is there. Rural Winnebago county between Roscoe and Machesney Park.

I was a teenager living in Central MO then, my grandmother bought the vhs of this video from the Jefferson City TV station. It’s a good watch if you have ten minutes. I have lots of memories, of nearly every bridge across the MO and MS rivers being closed, of the local grocery store owners death as he drove his tractor unknowingly into a flood covered 80’ deep washout from a levee burst, of my neighboring town of Rhineland being wiped off the map and rebuilt a few miles away, etc Let’s hope the rain stops. A 1993 repeat would be all bad.

Looks like a little popcorn cell trying to come up near Dekalb/southwest in terms of storm motion of Elgin.

It’s the last island on my list, have been to all the others, even the little ones like Molokai and Lanai. Volcanoes national park and Muana Kea are on the top of my list for when I do go, but I thought I’d chime in more from a weather perspective - island climo fascinates me. The differences between windward and leeward, and the little micro climates. Maui claims to have every climate on earth represented, the other islands are pretty close as well. Saving the big island for winter, going to bring my skis and try to ski Muana Kea.

Sheltered in hotel stairwell around 8pm here in Springfield, Mo - wasn’t paying attention as I was busy with a work dinner and heard the outside sirens. heard eas activation on hotel lobby tv, used pds wording. Not sure if that’s used on all warnings these days, or if it was a rare pds warning. Quite a few confirmed tog’s with confirmed damage according to local media - Rogersville, Mo, Willard, Mo, Republic, Mo. I’m not up to speed on the dynamics of this system, but looks to present a continued night time threat moving toward St. Louis and into southern Illinois.

Got to be in my first warned area of the season for the cell that brought a confirmed tornado to Wheaton, MO, one of the many discrete cells that have passed through here (Springfield, MO) today. https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/update-purdy-police-reports-wheaton-suffers-severe-tornado-damage/article_cc76a2ec-6b81-11e9-9194-631e8eae4d98.html

I left the snows of Chicagoland and am in Springfield, MO today. SPC put us under a watch a little bit ago, feels juicy out here.

holy cow, glad you made it out okay, wow. Did you have a personal locator beacon or did somebody just come upon you? The current situation down here at 43north isn’t great for much of anything outdoors, snow is trashed, can’t ride mountain bikes, too icy for studded fat bikes, ice isn’t solid enough on the water to do anything, ski hills are trashed, can’t snowshoe or XC ski. So I’m going ice climbing this weekend, the late season cold is good for one thing - freezing up the waterfalls and keeping the ice climbing season active.