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- From: kasha@twolf12.ee.washington.edu (Dan B. Kasha)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: Snow Retention Factor
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:58:11 GMT
- Organization: University Of Washington CAD
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- |> What does this mean? The article says it refers to the "amount (of
- |> snow) remaining after a snowfall", but I find it hard to believe that
- |> 96% of the snow that falls on Vermont melts the same day.
- |>
- |> BTW, what would be the SRF for western resorts?
- |>
- |> Later,
- |> -Ben.
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- It doesn't melt. Just first the wind blows 75% of it away, then the rain
- and freezing rain at the end of the storm gets another 10% and then the
- million skiers skiing it the next day get sideslip the other 12%. (just
- kidding). But these are significant factors in Vermont that do mean that
- the snow does not hold up long.
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- BUt beware of non statistics as the SRF
-