Every inch of rain roughly translates into 10 inches of snow.
After reviewing the weather patterns of the past recorded years, I can assume that a snow storm on the magnitude we have not seen in the United States is bound to happen in a short time. Likely 30-40 feet, possibly more over the course of a winter on the Eastern Seaboard of the US.
Houses crushed under the weight of 30 feet of snow would be everywhere.
Buildings we rely on to provide shelter would also be crushed because they were not built to withstand such pressure.
Communications, electricity, fuel delivery would cease because roads would become impassible.
Since the snow would most likely occur early in the season other snow would compact the problem as the season progresses.
Those who were not crushed would be suffocated as snow does not permit air to reach what it covers.
Anyone care to comment?
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2006-08-06 00:53:43 · 6 answers · asked by Bimpster 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
It is certainly possible. The current tendencies of climate change are to the extremes - hotter summers, colder winters, more rain, more snow ext.
2006-08-06 00:59:30 · answer #1 · answered by evil_tiger_lily 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By your own data you are predicting a single storm dropping 40 feet of snow, equivalent to 48 inches of rain. That is unlikely unless the storm lasted weeks without a break. One caution though. Snow has accumulated to such a depth in selected areas that one man had to leave his house from a second story window. The snow was cold and as fine as sugar and he was suffocated as he sank into the snow. He breathed it in and it turned to liquid and drowned him. Brrr! What a way to go.
2006-08-06 02:56:59 · answer #2 · answered by Kes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could happen and most likely will. It it not a question of IF, just a question of WHEN. In the blizzard of '77 & "78 we had snow that was 14 feet+ high where I lived and in the small town I lived in, power outages and being unable to reach anywhere and our town was in the middle of nowhere, trucks never made it there. This could and likely will happen globally within our lifetimes again.
2006-08-09 02:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hot air can hold more moisture.
Cold air can't, so the single-event amount of snow you're suggesting can't naturally occur.
You can return those snowshoes now.
; )
2006-08-09 05:52:43 · answer #4 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I answered this in the other nearly identical thread you started.
Run for your lives!!! Run for your lives!!! We're all going to die!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
2006-08-06 05:26:31 · answer #5 · answered by BobBobBob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not now itsa hot now
2006-08-06 08:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋