Snow accumulation in North America mountains

[Still Waters]

There's a lot more snow piling up in the mountains of North America than anyone knew, according to a first-of-its-kind study.

Scientists have revised an estimate of snow volume for the entire continent, and they've discovered that snow accumulation in a typical year is 50 percent higher than previously thought.

In the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers at The Ohio State University place the yearly estimate at about 1,200 cubic miles of snow accumulation. If spread evenly across the surface of the continent from Canada to Mexico, the snow would measure a little over 7.5 inches deep. If confined to Ohio, it would bury the state under 150 feet of snow.

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-accumulates-north-america-year-scientists.html

[Likely Guy]

Why would we bury Ohio in snow?

[.ZZ.]

2 minutes ago, Likely Guy said:

Why would we bury Ohio in snow?

Cleveland

[khol]

as in Browns I presume ?

 

 

[+susieice]

We aren't done yet.

[Doug1029]

14 hours ago, .ZZ. said:

Cleveland

While I sympathize with your view of Cleveland, I have to note that glacier ice (and snow) once covered Ohio from Cincinnati to Conneaut, excluding the southeast quarter.  The source of that snow and ice was the area around Lake Simco, north of Toronto in Ontario, an area that is currently sharing New England's snow woes.  The Miam ice stream advanced at about 390 feet per year, so covering most of the state took awhile.  It took about 5000 years for the ice to melt off.  Ice stands at each of the moraines was about 100 to 300 years.  One could live next to the glacier for one's entire life and not realize anything was happening.

About Cleveland:  it was named for Moses Cleaveland, the Western Reserve Company's chief surveyor.  Note the difference in spelling.  They misspelled his name when they named the city.  He stayed in the Western Reserve for two seasons and then quit to find better-paying work.  His entire crew quit with him.  All things considered, though; they did a good job, surveying sometimes up to 20 miles of line a day.  The accuracy is about the same as one would get using a hand-held compass and measuring distances by pacing.

Doug