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Massive rain storm on the way to metro Detroit could have been 10 feet of snow -
If temperatures were low enough, this weekend’s weather forecast would bring a lot of snow to metro Detroit.
Dave Kook, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in White Lake Township, said the expected 2-4 inches of rain could have amounted to as much as 10 feet of snow given the right conditions.
But that won’t happen, Kook said. Because the nature of the system is more like a springtime scenario, the system can hold more moisture than it would if temperatures were colder. If the temperature were cold enough for snow, Kook said it would not be bringing in nearly the precipitation expected.
The heaviest of the rains will begin Friday and continue through Sunday with possible ice and snow in the mix, Kook said. The rain could transition into freezing rain or snow, depending on the area, by Saturday morning.
Kook said on the coldest side of this weekend’s system, at most it would be around 1 foot of snow. In general, Kook said the snow-to-rain ratio sits at 10:1, with 10 inches of snow for every 1 inch of rain, but can fluctuate anywhere from a ratio of 5:1 to as [much] as 30:1 depending on how wet the snow is.
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find -
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.
The plan, which saw a juice company dump 1,000 truckloads of waste orange peel in a barren pasture in Costa Rica back in the mid 1990s, has eventually revitalised the desolate site into a thriving, lush forest.
This is the greatest thing I’ve read in a long time and I want this experiment replicated everywhere as soon as possible.
My town would be a good start.
the funniest part is that everyone is so surprised.
“composting kitchen waste makes plants grow. who knew???”
well… everyone?
It’s not so much that they’re SURPRISED about it. That was actually the original plan.
This juice company agreed to donate a few acres of its own land to a bordering national park, and compost orange peels there to help restore the land. They were subsequently sued by a rival juice company for having “defiled a national park.” The law sided with the rival company, and the project was discontinued early.
This isn’t so much a “Wow SO SURPRISE!” as a “FUCKIN’ TOLD YOU SO!”
Plus also, sixteen years ago, we might’ve known the answer to the question “What happens when you compost kitchen waste?” but we DIDN’T know the answer to “What happens when you dump 12,000 tons of orange peel on 7 acres of ecologically depleted wasteland?”
And for the first six months, the answer was, “7 acres of nasty-smelling, fly breeding ex-fruit sludge, and a lawsuit from a rival juice company,” but 16 years LATER we can say, “A 176 percent increase in above-ground biomass, and a study site so transformed we couldn’t tell we had the right place until we dug the sign out of undergrowth consisting mainly of native shrubs and grasses, SUCK IT, TICO FRUIT!!!!”
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