{"id":920,"date":"2007-02-28T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=920"},"modified":"2011-12-24T21:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T21:38:38","slug":"graupel-avalanche-danger-but-not-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Graupel: avalanche danger, but not here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/corn_snow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I shoveled a lot of snow today, but this was different. This is a kind of snow that really looks like someone cut open a giant bean bag and shook it over Bismarck-Mandan&#8230;some call it graupel.<\/p>\n<p>As you can read in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avalanche.org\/%7Euac\/encyclopedia\/graupel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this article from avalanche.org<\/a>, this snow can be hazardous because it causes fluidity in layers of snow.<\/p>\n<p>When I lived at a ski resort in the rockies, we&#8217;d do out-of-bounds boarding on our days off. That basically involves getting an avalanche &#8220;beeper&#8221; locator, a shovel and pack, signing a waiver, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avalanche.org\/%7Euac\/encyclopedia\/snowpit.htm\" target=\"_blank\">digging a snow pit to test snow conditions<\/a> before descending. Layers of snow that look like they&#8217;ll let loose are a good indicator to find another place to board or ski that day.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally this isn&#8217;t terribly relevant here in North Dakota, as our mountain ranges are conspicuously absent. But back at my old stompin&#8217; grounds, 10,000 feet and steep, this kind of snow would definitely be cause for concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shoveled a lot of snow today, but this was different. This is a kind of snow that really looks like someone cut open a giant bean bag and shook it over Bismarck-Mandan&#8230;some call it graupel. As you can read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}