Is it dead in Alaska? Naturally. But the reality of the amount of snowfall in Alaska can be far from Alaska's popular snowmobile.
Many people take up Alaska as an arable land where there is constant snow and where everybody lives in igloos. Such a concept of alaska sounds like a cold and white area
In fact, in Alaska there are more lakes, rivers and green trees than any state in the United States. The state is intense green and rich in most of the year. But the amount of rainfall and snowfall can be much smaller than you think.
Alaska snowfall numbers
Here are some average annual precipitation and snowfall across the cross
Anchorage — 15.37 "precip —- 69.0" snowfall
Barrow ——- 4.67 "———— 28.0"
Fairbanks —- 10.37 "—- ——- 68.0 "
Homer ——- 24.93" —– —— 58.0 "
Juneau —— 52.86 "———– 101.0"
McGrath —– 16.18 "——– — 93.0 "
Name ——– 15.64" ———– 56.0 "
Valdez ——- 61 , 50 "———– 320.0"
For comparison Buffalo, NY, receives 80-100 "snow per year on average. Some New York sections that are similarly affected by the Great Lakes proximity, average annual snowfall of 150-220 per year. Hooker, NY, received 466 snow snow in the 1976-1977 winter. Minneapolis, Minnesota received the highest 98-year seasonal snowfall in the winter of 1983 and 1984.
As you can see from Alaska's total power, the Alaskan areas are relatively dry, with less than 20 precipitations per year, and the southeast and southeastern coasts reach a much larger precipitation
In the desert. Yearly overall only 4.67 "moisture. Of course, most of these snow forms snow. Because of the lack of underground soil and the lack of intensive drying, sunlight and evaporation are minimal. That is why North Alaska is not a dry desert despite a small amount of rainfall.
Alaska Snowfall Records
Always interesting in extremes in Alaska. For example, Thompson Pass, a popular extreme skiing and snowboarding area north of Valdez, once had a 974.5 snow snow in 1954-1953. 19459002 Thompson Pass Recorded 62 Snow Months In December 1955, the Thompson Pass was awarded a record 297.9 month snow in February 1953, which was just under one meter snow. 19459002
Alaska's deep-set snow patch and the deepest North America in 1976-1977 in the Kenai Peninsula on the Wolverine glacier, the depth was 356. It is full of compressed snow Less than 30 meters 19459002
For comparison, Barrow, in the dry north, recorded a record minimal amount of snow in the winter 1935-1936 by just 3 ".
Here is a couple of Montague Island in 1976 recorded a record of 332.29 "precipitation, almost one inch per day, and Barrow in 1935 received only 1.61" precipitates. "Alaska has a huge amount of Freshwater in its glaciers, 75% of the world's freshwater is considered to be glaciers worldwide, Alaska has more than just shares.
Alaska has more than 5,000 glaciers covering more than 100,000 square miles, Alaska has more glaciers, Like the rest of the world, except the ice skates of Antarctica and Greenland
Valdez, northern Switzerland is situated on the south-central coast of Alsace Valdez and receives more than 300 snow snow per year on average. A few miles north of Valdez, home to several frozen waterfalls, and Valdez's world-wide The Thompson Pass, located north of Valdez, is one of the best helicopters for skiing and snowboarding in North America. No wonder Valdez is called "the northern Switzerland".
Valdez is a winter carnival every year. During the winter carnival season of 1990, the snowfall of the year reached 500 ", as part of the winter celebration, the city returns the movie with a 20-meter-long 18-meter screen." Back to the Beach "Snow crystallized frozen ice and crystal size Its shape depends on the glittering snow and the size and shape of the crystals depend on the snow bacterium. This snow is about the outdoor drive theater.
What is the snow? The amount of water vapor present during formation
Pure snow proteins are six-sided, six-sided The basic water molecule consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one oxygen atom and each crystallization of three new crystals of Ice crystals develops at a 60-degree angle and the crystallization continues Until six of these triangles are complete, while the crystal falls into the atmosphere, it becomes bigger and bigger, Its structure is the more commonly found in snowflakes, including stars, needles, flat planes, columns, upper columns, dendrites, and irregular groups.
Some snowflakes can be up to 1 in diameter.
One of Wilson Bentley's most interesting snowflake researches is that Snowflake Bentley was named because he was the first to photograph a snow white in 1885 He studied more than 5,000 snowflakes and declared that there are not two snowflakes exactly the same as this year's generation from generation to generation. 1931- Snowflake Bentley died and published a book titled Snow crystals (19459006) that depicts Snowflake Bentley's image More than 2400 pieces
How many eskimo words are in the snow?
It was said that in eskimo, inuit or Yupik snow there are 52 words and also They said that there were 21 words and they said that there were more than 400. Where is the truth?
How snow is so important in the lives of native Native Americans to In many words, it has to be described as having reached the level of myth. The truth is that there are probably as many eskimo snow as the English word of snow. Alaska's climate change
According to Alaska senator, Ted Stevens, "Alaska is affected by global climate change as any place in the world." Global warming has been a trend for many years, but in very few places the trend has so many consequences as Alaska. The average temperature has increased by nearly 7 degrees in the last 30 years
Changes due to the warming climate indicate, for example, that permafrost in Fairbanks and other cities is no longer constant. The ground has diminished due to molten permafrost, and in many buildings hydraulic sockets are required to keep it level. To the north, at Barrow, there are now mosquitoes in which it was not once.
In Shishmaref's coastal village, water is growing in the land under the village buildings. The village may have to move further on land. Spruce beetles killed 4 million hectares of white pine forests on the picturesque Kenai Peninsula, which is the greatest death in insects in North America. Bugs were able to reproduce twice the normal value due to higher summer temperatures. Dead trees are a huge fire hazard around a number of inhabited areas, and the most important recreational areas are threatened.
The glaciers were incredibly withdrawn. The Portage Glacier in the south of Anchorage has retreated so far that it is no longer visible from the Visitor Center for the last 20 years. The William Sound Prince Columbia Glacier is currently the fastest moving glacier in the world, between 80 and 115 feet per day. Since 1982 it has fallen to more than 6 miles.
Alaska still has many glaciers and significant snow, but changes are increasingly occurring and have world-wide impacts.