Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: [USMA:19783] 50 cm of snow!
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:48:24 -0600
> From: Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> From Yahoo -- and some of you guys think we're not metricating!
>
> Visit the link to see it large and boldfaced:
>
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020429/ap_wo_en_ge/us_april_snow_1
>
> "Snowstorm dumps up to 50 centimeters of snow on Wisconsin and
> Minnesota,
> leads to 4 deaths
> Mon Apr 29,11:19 AM ET
>
> ELCHO, Wisconsin - An April snowstorm dumped up to 20 inches (50
> centimeters) over the northern states of Wisconsin and Minnesota,
> knocking
> out power to thousands of homes and contributing to several fatal
> traffic
> accidents. ..."
That was a *FREAKY* snowstorm indeed. It fell in an east-west band no
more than about 20-25 km wide, about 150-175 km north of my home here in
Appleton, WI. We only got rain here, about 10-15 mm of it.
Places also hit by this snow included Tomahawk and Rhinelander, WI.
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