Thank you for sharing this beautiful picture! He studied it for 6 years! And it's the wettest he seen it? Well that's really not much to go on is it!? You mean the weather is going to weather! The shock and horror of it all! DAM GLOBAL WARMING!!! Beautiful to see water in the Salt Flats again. old, Jeremiah's 6 whole years is something to behold. Wow! Considering the Bonneville Salt Flats are at least 14,000 yrs. That 6 whole years even included a leap year. 6 years? 6 YEARS? Old Jeremiah has been around the block a time or two in 6 whole years. Weather is cyclical This may have only been studying for 6 years but this is definitely not the first time in 47 years that I have seen it flood or be wet. Global warming⨠In.6.years, oh, long time. Guess they better throw $300 million at it and magically keep it wet. Radjanirad I wonder what kind of changes this will make to the flats. Bernau said ice has been spotted on the surface of the floodwaters. The usually desolate, white raceway now looks more like a giant puddle. As you go away from that, it gets a lot thinner out to the edges," he said. "There's a much deeper area that can get maybe one to two feet deep. Last year's Speed Week event was canceled because of it, but Bernau said the amount of water that's collected at the Salt Flats right now is significant. "There's a lot of water that has come into the system recently." It's not unusual to see some flooding at the Salt Flats. ![]() He said this is the wettest he's ever seen it. Geologist Jeremiah Bernau with the Utah Geological Survey has studied the Salt Flats for six years. TOOELE - The Bonneville Salt Flats have flooded after all the rain Utah received this winter. The Bonneville Salt Flats have flooded after all the rain Utah has had this winter.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |