 Poster: A snowHead
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As we know, ski resort tourist offices have ways of making us believe various things. Here's a good one, reported today by www.ropeways.net:
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| Signs are good for a bumper snow season, adds Ms Howie*, pointing out that Lake Eyre is filling up at a rapid pace at the moment, with the last time the lake this full heralding in the bumper season of 2000, where Falls Creek opened a week early with 80cm coverage. |
[* Debbie Howie, Falls Creek Public Relations Manager]
Here's a discussion on the ... err ... magic snow-forecasting properties of Lake Eyre, in the Australian ski forum ski.com.au:
http://forums.ski.com.au/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=607120&page=1
I thought lakes filled with melted snow. Am I being thick?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I am guessing it is something related to the lake effect. Look it up 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thank you - I've looked it up.
The (snow) effect of a lake seems to have nothing to do with its depth.
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I think it is safe to assume for the same lake that the area of the surface is going to increase with depth.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm getting increasingly confused. Has the surface area of a lake got anything to do with the lake effect?
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There is supposedly a correlation between water in Lake eyre and the amount of snowfall on the Aussie Alps.
In reality, when was the last time you heard a ski resort predict a poor season???
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David Goldsmith, isn't it something to do with the difference between water temperature and air temperature. I will assume (perhaps wrongly) that the bigger the surface area of the lake the more water vapour that could be picked up by the weather front to be later dropped as snow on them there hills.
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