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[Rogerdodger]

Brundage Mountain extends ski season into May

Idaho News Thursday, April 24, 2008

McCALL -- Near-record snowfall and low spring temperatures are creating ideal conditions at Brundage Mountain Resort. Resort officials announced today that they will be open for a third bonus weekend in May.

This is the first time Brundage Mountain has ever offered lift service in the month of May.

Brundage Mountain has received 422 inches of snowfall this season. That makes this the second snowiest winter on record.

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[Rogerdodger]

Anchorage digs out after record snowfall

The Associated Press

Published: April 26th, 2008 12:37 PM
Last Modified: April 26th, 2008 12:37 PM

Anchorage continues to dig out from a snowfall that set a record for the day and the month.The National Weather Service says 17.2 inches fell at its office just south of Anchorage's international airport and 22 inches fell in northeast Anchorage on Friday and Saturday.
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[Rogerdodger]

July 2008:
Anchorage may be facing 'coldest summer ever'...

The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say.
Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees.

In terms of "coldest summer ever," however, a better measure might be the number of days Anchorage fails to even reach 60.
There too, 2008 is a contender, having so far notched only 35 such days -- far below the summer-long average of 88.
Unless we get 10 more days of 60-degree or warmer temperatures, we're going to break the dismal 1971 record of only 46 such days, a possibility too awful to contemplate.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 26 July 2008 - 11:21 PM.

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Hawaiian chill: Maui breaks record for coldest temps...
August 6, 2008
Maui County experienced a record low 64 degrees on Sunday that combined with steady afternoon showers to provide another near record 65 degrees on Monday.

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March 26, 2008
February in Sioux Falls was as harsh as any month on any Index City this winter, with temperatures averaging almost 6.0 degrees below normal. Over a two-week period beginning on February 10th, temperatures fell 13.5 degrees below historical averages nine times. When it reached -31.5 below normal on the 20th, the daily high was a cool 1.0 degrees, with the low at -19.
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Chicago Chill: Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930...

August 13, 2008
August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.

This summer's highest reading to date has been just 91 degrees. That's unusual. Since 1928, only one year—2000—has failed to record a higher warm-season temperature by Aug. 13.

[Rogerdodger]

B-r-r-r-r: Denver shatters 118-year-old temperature record...

August 16, 2008

... Record low maximum temperature set in Denver for August 16th...

The high temperature at Denver International Airport today was 58
degrees.

This 58 degree reading will replace the previous low maximum
temperature record for August 16th which was 63 degrees set 118
years ago in 1890.

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New Zealand ski resorts see 'largest snow base ever'...


Skifield operators at Turoa on Mt Ruapehu
are welcoming this season's record
dumps of snow. File photo / Alan Gibson

Turoa claims largest snow base ever
4:33PM Tuesday August 19, 2008
Skifield operators at Turoa on Mt Ruapehu are welcoming this season's record dumps of snow.
Mt Ruapehu is claiming the biggest snow base ever recorded for a New Zealand skifield with over 4.5m of snow on the ground.
Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, operator of Mt Ruapehu ski area, was celebrating what it called a major milestone today.
The snow measuring stake at Turoa previously only stood at 380cm so had to be extended to measure today's 455cm snow base.
The Whakapapa side of the mountain also had 350cm of snow, the biggest since 1995.
Mt Ruapehu marketing manager Mike Smith said the record-breaking snow base would be paradise for skiers and boarders, and with such large bases the season could potentially keep going into November.

[OEXCHAOS]

This has to be the nicest July and August that I can remember. Normally, it's sweltering here in the Midwest around now. This year, humidity has been mild and temperatures have been mostly under 87 and often under 85 at the highs. We've been working in an unconditioned 3rd floor attic for a while now without even bothering to get a fan going. It's a real summer, but it's about as nice as I could hope for.

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ALASKA July 4 & 5, 2008 Do you see any big pieces of ice from calving? Any ice burgs? mss