Subject: Re: Snow
From: raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
Date: 1990-05-23, 09:37
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <5982@scorn.sco.COM>, davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
> > 
> > Yo!  Dig what mbarnett@cs.utexas.edu (Michael Barnett) sez:
> > -In article <1745@engage.enet.dec.com> rosch@cpdw.enet.dec.com (Ray
Rosch) writes:
> > ->Question - Why no snow on the ground? 

Probably the main reason is that the Washington scenes were
shot in autumn of '89, before the arrival of winter storms.

Snoqualmie Pass does get a lot of snow in the winter.  I presume
that both the highway and the railroad still have long sections
of snow shed.

> > -this would help in placing twin peaks near the western edge of washington.
> > -since washington is next to the ocean, it is in fact relatively rare for
> > -there to be snow at all.
> > 
> > In that case, where are they getting all those clear nights?

All of Washington, even the Puget Sound area, usually gets
some severe clear days in the winter.  February is a prime
month to get winter storms going through, and the air mass
that follows each cold front is generally crystal clear.

Outside of winter, they do luck out sometimes.  In my 9 years
in Seattle there were 2 or 3 that had genuine sunny summers.
On the other hand, there was one year that had (by my count)
a grand total of 5 clear days.

> >   My guess 
> > is that if it's Washington, it *has* to be the eastern border, but more
> > likely this whole thing takes place in Idaho.  Well, a proverbial Idaho,
> > since the scenery doesn't match up with the given location.

That's an eminently sensible inference.  If it had actually
been shot in February, I think that would be the right conclusion.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@isi.edu