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More Than 2 Feet of Snow Could Fall on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii

posted by on Sunday December 04 2016, @01:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-the-weather-outside-is-frightful dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for chromas

A perfectly normal weather event is occurring in Hawaii today.

The summits of Hawaii's Big Island could get more than two feet of snow, with a winter storm warning in effect through Saturday.

A Winter Storm Warning is in effect through Saturday evening for elevations above 11,000 feet. The summits could get 20 to 30 inches of snow through Saturday, CBS affiliate KGMB.

An upper level low pressure area has brought the sub-freezing temperatures and unstable conditions. The low will combine with moisture surging in from the southeast, which could result in bursts of heavy snow, especially above 12,000 feet.

Conditions on the summits are dangerous. Besides being cold, east to southeast winds of 10 to 20 miles per hour are expected with higher gusts. The strong winds also will cause drifting snow, and freezing fog will reduce visibility to as low as a quarter of a mile.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @05:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @05:22PM (#436920)

    Snow is cold and watery when melting. This is the result of new research into the cognitive perception of snow and water, as it is moved through time and space with interactions of the fourth kind. It has not yet been determined if the perception changes while cognitively present at said event. However, preliminary results indicate that nobody likes to put their hands in the jar of cold melting snow. The most heard comment regarding this research has been water-related of the unsavory kind in the yellow sense. It is yet unclear whether the color vanishes when frozen again to repeat the research at a later time.

    Science cannot prove things, and sometimes may be wrong. So everyone will know you are not part of the club from that paragraph. You need to pepper it with words like "suggest" to signal membership, eg: "Evidence suggests that snow is cold and watery when melting".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:58PM (#436961)

    So there's still hope for my dark snow hypothesis to explain what happens to snow by the side of the road by February?

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday December 05 2016, @06:26AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday December 05 2016, @06:26AM (#437072)

    Just because most places typically either contain snow OR do not contain snow, does not mean that you should be imposing your narrow-minded views on Mauna Kea!
    Scientists are studying whether the mountain may have been born inter-snow, prefer poly-snow, or may just be a macro-example or quantum snow uncertainty.