Post by Carl on Apr 20, 2009 15:46:08 GMT -5
I thought I would share a couple of pictures of Mt. Shasta which is over 14,000 feet above sea level.
I drive by this mountain both coming and going on these monthly trips.
An interesting note that the way this mountain plugs a gap between other mountains, it can really catch the very moisture laden Pacific Cold Fronts.
This area holds this record:
Greatest Snowfall For A Snowstorm
The record for a single snowstorm is 480 cm (189 in), at Mount Shasta , California, USA, between February 13 and 19, 1959.
It was in on my return trip last Feb. (while even worse things were brewing at home) that I was stuck in a storm of near this above intensity. The next morning news reports showed the snowfall along Interstate 5 at one foot per hour. I could not see the road in front of me more an a few dozen feet, it was very disorienting as all I saw was white as the road below me was also gone and the snow plows could not keep up.
April 16 morning:
April 18 evening:
Carl
As well even four wheel drive vehicles were getting stuck.
I drive by this mountain both coming and going on these monthly trips.
An interesting note that the way this mountain plugs a gap between other mountains, it can really catch the very moisture laden Pacific Cold Fronts.
This area holds this record:
Greatest Snowfall For A Snowstorm
The record for a single snowstorm is 480 cm (189 in), at Mount Shasta , California, USA, between February 13 and 19, 1959.
It was in on my return trip last Feb. (while even worse things were brewing at home) that I was stuck in a storm of near this above intensity. The next morning news reports showed the snowfall along Interstate 5 at one foot per hour. I could not see the road in front of me more an a few dozen feet, it was very disorienting as all I saw was white as the road below me was also gone and the snow plows could not keep up.
April 16 morning:
April 18 evening:
Carl
As well even four wheel drive vehicles were getting stuck.
