"Houses, Gardens and Fences Sunk Under the Snow" Snowpocalypse 2008 Girl With Snowball on Larch St in Vancouver BC 24Dec2008

            My daughter poses next to some impressive stacks of snow. She enjoyed the seemingly boundless snowfall. She could grow up, graduate university and be well into her career before another such snowstorm happens. Of course, the weather is capricious, and sometimes rare events cluster temporally.

The photographer, by the way, is in danger from the white missile that she carries. Snowball wars, and snow forts, spring up throughout the city during the long snow of 2008.

The first snowstorm began on the evening of 13 Dec 2008. After which, one snow event after another followed into the New Year. For a location where icy accumulations usually only lasts a few days at most, the incessant series of snowstorms, a number of which dropped 15 cm (~6") or more of the white stuff in a single fall, caught many Vancouverites by surprise. It had been decades since snow had persisted so long. And one had to look back to 1996 to find an event--a single one in the case of the "Blizzard of '96"--that produced a similar thickness of accumulation. Due in part to the prolonged onslaught right in the heart of all the grim news about the Great Recession, some people began calling the prolonged winter weather the "snowpocalypse." Others called it "snowmageddon."

The five photos I posted today are from Christmas Eve. By this time, the snow depth approached, but had not reached, peak values for the entire month-long winter weather outbreak. On this day, the fourth snowstorm in the series dropped 22.2 cm (8.7") of snow at Tisdall Park in my neighbourhood. Total snow depth, new snow piled upon old, had reached 46.4 cm (18.3"). Needless to say, with light snow showers the next morning, Vancouver had a seriously white Christmas, a rare treat for the normally moderate coastal location.

Taken on: December 24, 2008

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Camera: Kodak Z7590 Zoom, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, 6.3mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Kodak Z7590 Zoom
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	6.3mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Macintosh
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