• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    50cm of snow is considered a decades worth? That doesn’t make sense.

    • sanguine_artichoke
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      11 months ago

      I don’t get it either. I’ve lived in places in the US that got 50-80 cm in a couple of days several times a season.

        • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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          11 months ago

          We got 3’ in a day last year and we got less then others did. Then it melted by the next week. Lake effect is crazy.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      Snow is weird. It didn’t build up linearly. I saw this whole YouTube video by Tom Scott or someone where they explain how measuring snowfall is such a folly

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        11 months ago

        The article even says that the storm they got is roughly 1/5th of the standard December snow.

        So they got a bit less than 1-week’s worth of snow in a day.

        “Decades” and 1-week’s worth are not the same thing.