Parking Lot Mountains

"NinetyQ" (NinetyQ) 01/31/2014 at 11:34 • Filed to: None

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We currently have maybe a foot of snow on the ground right now in northern Indiana, and this is what one of the parking lot piles looks like at the local Walmart as of last night.

Someone posted a weather report that predicts another 16" of snow for our area between now and next Wednesday. So I'm curious to see how big these piles are going to get by then. I'll try to post a comparison if it's worthwhile.

Party-vi > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 11:44

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Quite a neat picture. How far are you from Garrett/Ft Wayne?

YSI-what can brown do for you > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 11:45

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We have maybe like 3 or 4 inches on the ground. What is going on in the rest of Indiana?!?!

Textured Soy Protein > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 11:45

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We're now up to about 36" so far this winter here in Madison, WI. There are snow mountains like this everywhere.

RacecaR > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 11:45

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Son of a bitch. I'm flying from southern Indiana to Detroit, then to Toronto on Tuesday. Then coming him Thursday. Guessing it will not be a fun travel day on Tuesday.

rok247 > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 11:49

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Here in the northlands, at some point they actually have to bring trucks in and haul it away because they run out of room to pile it up.

RacecaR > YSI-what can brown do for you 01/31/2014 at 11:52

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We have nothing in southern Indiana. Have not had any kind of accumulation in awhile now.

iaintafraidofnoghost > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 11:56

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Our pikes are about 15ft at this point. They are getting huge. I'm curious to see how high they get if it doesn't get warmer and we get more snow.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 12:01

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We're over 150" so far with probably 3-4' on the ground. This is one of the 5 piles from the small parking lot at work. Hard to tell in the pic but it's about 20' high.

Svend > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 12:16

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What car is that? Looks a lot like a Rover Coupe, that I dreamed I'd one day have when I was younger.

NinetyQ > Svend 01/31/2014 at 12:23

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It's a '96 Pontiac Grand Prix SE coupe.

NinetyQ > Textured Soy Protein 01/31/2014 at 12:24

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You only have 36" this season? We're somewhere around 80" right now.

NinetyQ > Party-vi 01/31/2014 at 12:26

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About a two hour drive northwest of Fort Wayne. Maybe a bit further. Haven't driven it from here.

Party-vi > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 12:26

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Wow. Yep that's up there.

NinetyQ > rok247 01/31/2014 at 12:27

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I was thinking last night that they might have to start doing that at some point. We haven't had many above freezing days this year. Most winters, we'll get a big snow, it'll stick around for a week or so, but gradually melt off throughout that time. This year it's just been staying. Can't remember when I last saw the grass.

NinetyQ > Party-vi 01/31/2014 at 12:29

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Yeah, it's maybe a 20-30 minute drive from my apartment to the Indiana-Michigan state line. I'm in Mishawaka (just east of South Bend). I wasn't trying to be deliberately cryptic about my location, lol.

Also, I meant northwest. Fixed in edit.

Party-vi > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 12:30

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I had relatives from Garrett so I was just curious. It was the best excuse to go to the ACD festival :D

NinetyQ > Party-vi 01/31/2014 at 12:32

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Heck yeah! I went to that a couple years ago for the first time. I'd like to go back.

Svend > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 12:34

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Nice. The one above is a '96 Rover 216 SE Coupe. Long lost brothers I guess.

Party-vi > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 12:36

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What always amazed me about it was that outside of the Festival you could always find really nice old cars for reasonable prices. Last time we went my dad purchased a '72 Pontiac Catalina convertible that just had a new white top and the body gone over & primer'd for $1,700. Another $1,700 later and it was sprayed in fire engine red and he was on his way back to MD with it. I miss that car.

Textured Soy Protein > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 13:04

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Welp, I had to go digging for this data. The total snowfall plots are at the bottom of each chart. I had to guesstimate how much of the 2013 snowfall total was from the 2013/14 winter portion and then added it to the 2014 totals so far.

For Madison, WI, snowfall totals :

2013 (about 28" for the 2013/2014 winter)

2014 - 12.4"

So call it about 40" total.

North Webster, IN totals ...

2013 - about 17" total for the 2013/2014 winter.

2014 - 35.7"

So about 53" total for this winter.

You still win, but not with 80". ;)

Leadbull > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 13:09

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Just curious, does your area get lake effect snow?

NinetyQ > Leadbull 01/31/2014 at 13:10

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Yup. We're not the heaviest hit by it in the area, but we get a significant amount. Weirdly, I think most of our snow has been actual system snow this year.

overdrv > NinetyQ 01/31/2014 at 15:49

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I live in Sudbury, Ontario. We dumptruck that snow to a cliff and dump it there. It was Mid October before it all melted last year.