When will the Twin Lakes Snow Cam melt?

[cyclone77]

Not much left on satellite either...

 

[Jonger]

It will vanish before midnight I'm sure.... Time of death might be wrong, but date is pretty solid.

[Geos]

It's impressive when you think we are only 5 weeks away from the strongest sun rays of the year. Yet snow managed to hang around until today!

[stormtrackertf]

I like it too. Since the time frame was so short, I figured I'd grab the hourly image and loop that. But, for a seasonal lapse, I use a noon shot, one image a day. At least it is what I do for my webcam, like this -->

 

Great video. I especially love the part when your neighbor's cucumber vine (or whatever) invades and makes a beeline for the drainspout.

[Trent]

It will vanish before midnight I'm sure.... Time of death might be wrong, but date is pretty solid.

 

Yeah. It probably did melt between 4 and 5 yesterday. I just realized that the image has been frozen since the 3pm shot yesterday, but the time stamp on the bottom keeps updating which makes it deceiving.

 

Maybe a joke by the resort ... Keeping that last frame with snow up?

[OSNW3]

I love the time lapse.... Its amazing how much of a change the sun angle is from day to day, its like 1 inch of extra distance for a 20 foot poll.

 

Me too! One of the best pieces of the annual time lapse are the shadow placements throughout year.

[OSNW3]

Great video. I especially love the part when your neighbor's cucumber vine (or whatever) invades and makes a beeline for the drainspout.

 

Watching the garden grow is fascinating.

[OSNW3]

What is the official time of death?

[Geos]

What is the official time of death?

 

Early evening on the 15th. I'd say between 6-7pm.

[WestMichigan]

I am too lazy to read back through 8 pages to find everyone's guesses.  Who won?

[OSNW3]

Early evening on the 15th. I'd say between 6-7pm.

 

Sweet!

[OSNW3]

I am too lazy to read back through 8 pages to find everyone's guesses.  Who won?

 

All of these good folks.

 

Jonger1150, mnweather, OHweather, weatherbo, Andy, dta1984, SchaumburgStormer, Prairie Dog, WisTodd, Siberian Express, n1vek, Northstar, lakeeffectkid382, tacoman25

[ORH_wxman]

That was impressive the past 2 weeks. Going back in the thread to late April, a lot of people were saying it would be wiped out within a couple days once it started getting hammered by some warm weather.

[Jonger]

Looks like they took the measuring stick down for the season... And turned the camera back on. Grass looks like its greening up now. We all thought the lake would hold on the longest, but it appears the snow pile lasted a tad longer than the lake.

[cyclone77]

Finished the time lapse I started back in March.  Basically took one screen grab a day, so not as good as OSNW3's time lapse.  This would have been better if the dude wouldn't have moved his camera around a few times. 

 

[Jonger]

Very cool... Thanks for making that.

[beavis1729]

2012-13 seasonal snowfall for the UP...some places finished with well over 300".

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=mqt&storyid=95397&source=0

[Trent]

It's always cool to see the gradients with lake effect snow. Really reiterates how the NWS "Marquette" does not represent the snowfall that actually falls in Marquette. 89 inches in Marquette versus 215 inches at the NWS just 8 miles away and about 700' higher in elevation. Also judging by that map, it's the least snowy coastal area of Michigan's Superior coastline. 

[Geos]

2012-13 seasonal snowfall for the UP...some places finished with well over 300".

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=mqt&storyid=95397&source=0

 

That's one extreme gradient for Marquette County! Amazing how much the slightly warmer lake air mass takes away right along that stretch of coast.

[michsnowfreak]

It's always cool to see the gradients with lake effect snow. Really reiterates how the NWS "Marquette" does not represent the snowfall that actually falls in Marquette. 89 inches in Marquette versus 215 inches at the NWS just 8 miles away and about 700' higher in elevation. Also judging by that map, it's the least snowy coastal area of Michigan's Superior coastline. 

And the southeastern part of the U.P. always has low snowfall totals (out of the LES zone). In fact many times in recent years Detroit has outsnowed that area of the U.P. Sure they get more snowcover, but if Im going to live in the U.P. its going to be in the snowbelt!

[Trent]

That's one extreme gradient for Marquette County! Amazing how much the slightly warmer lake air mass takes away right along that stretch of coast.

I think orographic lift plays the bigger role in this case.

[Jonger]

Another week and than we turn the corner towards winter.

[MidwestChaser]

Another week and than we turn the corner towards winter.

 

LOL no. 

[Jonger]

Another week and than we turn the corner towards winter.

 

LOL no. 

The days get shorter... That's all I meant.

[SpartyOn]

The days get shorter... That's all I meant.

Shorter and hotter.

[michsnowfreak]

Shorter and hotter.

Just like the days get longer and colder after December 21st...but some of the warmistas already start with the sun angle comments ;-)

[Jonger]

The march to winter starts around mid Sept, that's when the arctic freezes back up and snowlines start moving south.

[SpartyOn]

Just like the days get longer and colder after December 21st...but some of the warmistas already start with the sun angle comments ;-)

Isnt a warmista used to describe someone who trumpets AGW?

[OSNW3]

Finished the time lapse I started back in March.  Basically took one screen grab a day, so not as good as OSNW3's time lapse.  This would have been better if the dude wouldn't have moved his camera around a few times. 

 

 

Nice work! I took my down. I am glad you put yours on YT. Not sure how you are going about the screen grabs, but if you have a FTP software you can configure it to automagically do the grabbing for you on a timed interval. I would be willing to do the same thing next year at a station you all select.  WooWinter!

[Jonger]

You guys should start doing screen grabs around Nov 1st, sometimes the first snows hit in mid October though.

Sucks that its highly unlikely to get as deep as last year, but you never know.