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> If water were well managed here, the area is potentially blessed over the long term compared to most of the West because there are large amounts of precipitat
by jarsin 4y ago
> If water were well managed here, the area is potentially blessed over the long term compared to most of the West because there are large amounts of precipitation that fall on the nearby Wasatch and Uinta mountains.
I grew up in park city. They get that snow because of the great salt lake. It's called the lake effect. No telling what happens if that lake is not there.
- RC_ITR 4y agohttps://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/8/2/1520-0434_1993_008_0181_tleotg_2_0_co_2.xml?tab_body=pdf https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/8/2/1520-043... Luckily, the impact of lake-effect from the Great Salt Lake is much more of a talked about thing than a practical thing. Lake effect is real, the Great Salt Lake makes it happen, but it's a lot smaller and rarer than you'd think (partly because the lake is much smaller than the Great Lakes, which cause places like Upstate NY to be very dependent on the lakes for their precipitation). I honestly wonder if the Rochester <> Salt Lake City Mormon connection is part of why it became such a meme.