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This has been a fantastic winter so far for our drought. The mountains in all of Utah have been pounded. Most basins are at 190% of normal snow pack and many places are over 200%. It has been fairly warm in the Wasatch Front valleys, low 30's/low40's so lots of rain. It rained over night and we got .44" here at the house. Then it turned to snow early this morning and we got about 4". We have had 3" of rain since Jan 1. That does not count all the water content in the snow.

The Great Salt Lake level is at an all time low. However, it has actually risen slightly in January. It almost never does that in January,
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The winter sunsets are starting already. Not great today but pretty nice. It has been fairly wet so far this fall. Hopefully the snow pack will be above average again this winter. The average snowfall at Alta ski resort (about 40 miles from here) from 1945 to 2021/22 is 497". The record in that time was 745" in 1985 (I got here in Jul 84). That was the year the lake hit an all time high. State Street in Salt Lake City was a river in the spring. !-15 and !-80 were sand bagged in places where they were close to the lake.

Fast forward to last winter. Alta got 901" of snow. There was no flooding because the snow pack mealted much slower this spring than it did in 1985. Also the lake was already at a record high before the spring run off in 1985. This year the lake was at a record low.

Sorry for the out of focus pictures. I didn't notice until it was too late.
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Even out of focus, pretty awesome. Thanks for posting.
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JPG wrote: Wed Nov 01, 2023 5:39 pm utahss2.jpgThis gooder?
Yes What did you do?
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Camera processing does some intentional blurring to 'soften' the image. It is not noticeable with well focused images. Makes off focused worse.

Sharpening function restores those crisp edges(at the expense of some noise generation).

Sometimes it helps, other times not so much.(makes things worse)

i.e. no magic!
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This one is not too bad tonight.
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John has posted some stunning pictures of Utah Sunsets. I like the one he posted on December 4, 2021 the best so far.

Although not a sunset but a sunrise I thought I would add a picture taken this morning from the deck outside our dining room. This is the view we have from our new home looking at Mount Hood here in Oregon. It is one of the reasons we liked this home as opposed to others we looked at before moving from our previous home of almost 37 years. Sunsets reflecting off Mount Hood have been beautiful too.

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Since moving at the end of June we have enjoyed many picturesque sunrises and sunsets at our new home.

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Here's hoping we can all enjoy many more sunsets (and sunrises) for years to come.
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:D :D :D
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Red sky at night, sailor's delight.

Red sky in morning, sailors warning.

That mean yellow sky in morning A OK?
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