The Center for Snow & Avalanche Studies serves the mountain science community and regional resource managers by hosting & conducting interdisciplinary research and conducting integrative 24/7/365 monitoring that captures weather, snowpack, radiation, soils, plant community and hydrologic signals of regional climate trends.
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Between November 27 and December 27, 2008 our Swamp Angel Study Plot received seven “numbered” winter storms totaling 255 mm of water equivalent (10” of water), raising the snowpack from 30 cm deep to 178 cm deep. December 2008 also proved to be the windiest month in our five-year history at the Putney Study Plot, with 14,741 “miles of wind” recorded, the total of over one-half million measurements of speed and direction, made every five seconds. The effects of all that wind were felt in Silverton, where roof shovelers were in constant demand.
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Greene (Main) Street on Christmas Day, 2008. |
A shop on our street on Christmas Day, 2008. |