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NY Snow
It was 78 degs here in Fairbanks on Sunday. Upstate New York received over 3 feet of snow.
I hate to say it, but it’s hard for me not to be amused by that.
On the plus side, at least they have a long weekend to hit the slopes.
Spring in Minnesota
In a state of denial, I really had figured that I had seen the last of snow until september at the earliest. Minnesota had other ideas.
A nice wet four inches or so of the white stuff is blanketing The Rover this morning. It is actually nicer in Fairbanks today.
I’ve been told that the record for the ice going out on Lake Minnetonka is May 10. That record is now in jeopardy.
I know I have that snow brush buried in The Rover somewhere.
Silver Lining?
I was wondering: If the National Hockey League continues its lockout through March, does this mean we will experience an entire college hockey season without the NHL poaching players from their universities? What a novel concept…
The puck drops in less than a month.
Photo courtesy of Golden Gopher Hockey
Top 5 Volcanic Eruptions Since 1700
Tambora
10 April 1815
Volcanic Explosivity Index:7
The largest eruption in modern history, Tambora cast a cloud of ash around the world, which caused 1816 to be the “year without a summer”. A foot of snow fell in Quebec City in June of that year.
Krakatoa
27 August 1883
VEI:6
The eruption of Krakatoa caused a tsunami 150 feet high, and the explosion was heard 3000 miles away.
Novarupta
6 June 1912
VEI:6
The largest eruption of the 20th Century took place on the Alaska Peninsula. Novarupta threw out 30 times more material than Mt St Helens, and ash rained down on Kodiak Island for three days reaching over a foot in depth.
Pinatubo
15 June 1991
VEI:6
It had been 500 years since Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines. The thousands of earthquakes & minor eruptions in April & May of 1991 led to the evacuation of 66,000 people from the island of Luzon. 850 people were killed in the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, while 92,000 people were estimated to have died in the eruption of Tambora.
Santa Maria
24 October 1902
VEI:6
The smallest of our VEI 6 eruptions took place on the Guatemala coast. It was the first eruption recorded in the mountain’s history, sending ash as far away as San Francisco.
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