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As for other cold areas in the contiguous united states. You have Peter Sinks, near Bear Lake, Utah. In which a sinkhole half of a mile in diameter has no outle
by skunkworker 5y ago
As for other cold areas in the contiguous united states. You have Peter Sinks, near Bear Lake, Utah. In which a sinkhole half of a mile in diameter has no outlet valley, is at 8,164 feet and in a dry climate.
Which has the second coldest temperature recorded in the lower 48 of -69.3F on Feb 1, 1985. [1]
https://climate.usu.edu/PeterSinks/index.php https://climate.usu.edu/PeterSinks/index.php
- CottonMcKnight 5y agoIt is actually fairly rare to see nested rings of contour lines on a map that do NOT increase in elevation, because sinks like this tend to get filled up with water.
- davidw 5y agoInteresting - the Dolomites in Italy have similar sinkholes (doline) that also collect cold air: https://www.arpa.veneto.it/temi-ambientali/climatologia/progetti/depressioni-fredde1 https://www.arpa.veneto.it/temi-ambientali/climatologia/prog...
- mannykannot 5y agoI see that for most of the afternoon of December 9, the wind in the sink was considerably higher than at the rim, which I would not have thought would be likely at all.