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Offline Scalphunter

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Just broke an 100
« on: October 20, 2014, 03:01:34 AM »
 inches of rainfall here for the 2014 year.As wet as it has been this year averaging around 12 inches/month since May I think we will be well up in the 150-160 inches of rainfall.  This is our wet season in SEAK .Ground is saturated and any wind with the storms can set off slides on the slopes.

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2014, 04:19:36 AM »
Hey John, long time.  How does that effect the underground "tunnel" fires? Any help with those?

Hope all is well with you and the Mrs.

Dan
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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2014, 09:03:31 PM »
What is average rainfall a year up there John?
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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2014, 09:14:24 PM »
Where is SEAK located?
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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2014, 10:09:22 PM »
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Where is SEAK located?
I believe it is South East Alaska, John is located in Ketchikan, AK

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2014, 10:28:44 PM »
Lots of Rain up there. I have a daughter who summers in Homer in the relative dry zone.
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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2014, 02:17:44 AM »
Hi Dan. Well this summer was nice no fires up in the Cabin area. Fairbanks recorded there wettest summer on record. 12.35 inches of rain. Remember they are in what consider artic desert. Normally 8-9 inches of precip in an year. so the squirrel nest fires got an good soaking.

Ocala Ketchikan generally gets on the average of 160 inches of rain an year. Record for rain here is 202 inches. Port Sir Walter up by Sitka has seen 220 inches.  Coastal Mountain just wring the clouds out. Typhoon remmants come in and get wrng dumping 5 to 10 inches in 24 hour period.

SEAK is S. E. Alaska

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2014, 04:39:42 AM »
Is this indirectly related to the Californian drought?
Jet stream taking low pressure and moisture further north?

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2014, 06:00:30 PM »
Hi Dan. Well this summer was nice no fires up in the Cabin area. Fairbanks recorded there wettest summer on record. 12.35 inches of rain. Remember they are in what consider artic desert. Normally 8-9 inches of precip in an year. so the squirrel nest fires got an good soaking.

Ocala Ketchikan generally gets on the average of 160 inches of rain an year. Record for rain here is 202 inches. Port Sir Walter up by Sitka has seen 220 inches.  Coastal Mountain just wring the clouds out. Typhoon remmants come in and get wrng dumping 5 to 10 inches in 24 hour period.

SEAK is S. E. Alaska

John

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2014, 01:00:13 AM »
Joe at the present the jet is plowing into California. but there is something in play with the jet as their an HP ridge going down the Bering. so that pushes more storms our way. Normally the northern Jet goes over SEAK so we get lot of moisture. It wanders up and down the coast but never strays far. Lot of the typhoons this year have also meander across the Pacific as they die dumping out the moisture as it climbs the Coastal.


Yep Slow  have good pair here  locally they are called Ketchikan tenny runner. Need if you got watch the soccer or youth football games. Yep we play come rain or shine.

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2014, 05:18:54 AM »
"meander across the Pacific as they die dumping out the moisture"

Tropical storm 'Ana' appears to be following suit with it's forecast too. Just what you need, huh.

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2014, 01:52:35 PM »
It was mention in Alaska weather  last night.

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2014, 02:13:03 PM »
John - has there been any projections about this winter as far a precip goes? Any thoughts on what, if any, impacts this will have on the receding glaciers?

Good to hear from you again - take care!

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2014, 08:57:14 PM »
It's amazing with that amount of rain and the steep slopes of the mountains that every mountain side doesn't have daily mud slides. It sounds like the soil never dries out. Those tree roots must go down pretty deep to keep things stable.
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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2014, 01:15:48 AM »
Don this year so far been wetter then normal  and cooler.I have  yet to see anything offical about the projection but the Taku, Chenga and Hubert Glaciers are all moving forward. With cooler summer less melting. Junea Ice field  been holding stead but the Mendanhall receding. Once the glacier breaks contact with it forward moraine it recedes quickly till it can get another toe hold. I post last year I think it was an pix of the Matanuska Glacier. It is still abot the same  have to wait couple years and I'll shoot another.


Ocala  trees here in SE don't grow downward. Soil not very deep. 3 feet here at house your on bedrock. But the root ball spreads out. I seen some as wide as 20 feet  with the upper end  around 125-150 feet. they seem to rock on the ball in high winds and they do get undercut with rivelet then somewhere something moves and the slide starts. In Washington the have glacier till and clay on the hillsides. bad combination. Here it is just an peat type soil. Not an true loam but an begininng as this contry was all ice few years ago(geological time)  In last ice age the water was lot lower along the coast and all these fjords had  rivers of ice flowing thru them. All the glacier till I have seen here is always on the valley floors in SE. Not p on mountain sides.

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2014, 09:13:02 AM »
  Well Dn the remains of tropical depression Ana came ru here as it moved ashore dumping 2.50 of rain . Most of the storm passed south of us. Up north the neighbor there said he recorded the first below zero temps. Time  to throw extra log on the fire.

John

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2014, 05:01:51 PM »
Well we just  went thru our 5 th month in an row with 12 inches  or more of rainfall.  October  is generally out wet and it came thru true to form.17.35 inch for the month. Too bad can't send it  south. So far today in 12 hours we picked up another  inch.  happy slopping.

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Re: Just broke an 100
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2014, 07:28:05 AM »
Well here we are the 23 th and  just hit the 130 inch  mark for rainfall. This month alone  so far been 14 inches.  With the  low pattern  just spinning around out  in the gulf we get a new front about every 48 hours. Had several pass thru where  barometric pressure fell below 29.00. But that normal for here with  the blows that come thru.  really nothing to get too excited about like they do in Puget Sound. Some of the front have been extending that far south.

Back in to the hole.

John