[pct-l] PCT Mom: Re: "Oregon don't look good"

[Postholer]

Yeah, it can be a bit misleading near the beginning and end of the snow 
season when comparing to todays date, especially this year! Graphically, you 
get a better feel for it if you use the default Apr 1st near the beginning 
or end of the snow season.

For instance, if you look at the graph for Clear Lake, usually they have no 
snow on June 1st. But you still have over a foot there today. So the average 
is several thousand times that of normal. Misleading.

Compare it against the default April 1st and it shows 45% average, which is 
easier to digest, but still appears to be an enormous amount because of that 
whole average thing. Misleading.

Only when you look at the tabular data you see about 14.5 inches of snow on 
the ground. No big deal from the thru hikers perspective. It will probably 
be gone in a couple weeks.

So while the graph may be misleading at times, you have links to all the 
official data to give you a reasonable ballpark idea of what's
going on.

Now that everyone is confused.....  :)

-postholer

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Here is the Post Holer link I was looking at. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.
http://postholer.com/cgi-bin/postHoler?histMonth=6&histDay=1&histYear=2008&avgMonth=6&avgDay=1

> PCT MOM


>On 6/1/08, OMullis <omullis at aircanopy.net> wrote:
>
> As an Oregon section hiker this coming Sept, I was wondering if you can
> expand on your comment
> on the "Post Holer snow depth graph" being "a mess"?   This will be my
> first foray along
> the PCT so I'm very curious to know more about what looks out of whack.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> Ollen Mullis
> Venus TX
> PCT-OR Sept2008
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