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See [https://www.gerlachweather.com/ Black Rock Desert Current Conditions].




=== External Resources ===
* RAWS
** [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBLU Bluewing Mountain]
** [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNFOX Fox Mountain]
** [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBUF Buffalo Creek]


* [http://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx?Lat=40.65&Lng=-119.35&Alt=1200&Loc=Gerlach&TZ=PST Heavens-Above] satellite observing information for Gerlach
* [[Satellite]]
* [http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/remotedata/rnosutobs.php Automated observations from the Pyramid Lake Fisheries near Sutcliffe, NV]


http://www.micmacmedia.com/Sierra_Stories/Floods_in_Driest_State/floods_in_driest_state.html A less happy ending occurred on August 11, 1941 amid heavy thunderstorms that soaked much of Nevada. One-half mile of Western Pacific track washed out near Beowawe, causing 40 cars on a freight train to derail. Floodwaters rushed across U.S. 40. That day Fred Bishop and his wife were traveling east on U.S. 40 on their way to Chicago. Bishop, a veteran Western Pacific train agent, had acted as a weather observer at Sulphur, a lonely posting west of Winnemucca, for more than a quarter century.
== Historic ==
* [https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/nv/reno/KRNO/date/1949-1 Reno temperature data starting in January 1949] (weatherunderground)
* [http://thestormking.com/Sierra_Stories/Floods_in_Driest_State/floods_in_driest_state.html Floods in driest state] The August 11, 1941 death of Fred Bishop, a weather observer at [[Sulphur]] for more than a 25 years. Bishop died at Beowawe, Nevada.
* "[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822013339916&view=1up&seq=9 Rainfall and tree growth in the Great Basin]," Ernst Antevs, Carnegie institution of Washington and the American geographical society of New York, 1938.


When the Bishops encountered the muddy flow crossing the highway near Beowawe, they stopped and got out of the car. Tragically, Bishop was standing only a few feet from his wife when a surge of water caught him. Mrs. Bishop saw her husband swallowed by the torrent. She told a reporter, "As I got to high ground, he waved 'Goodbye, dear,' and that was the last I saw of him." Bishop's battered body was discovered the next day, five miles away.
== See Also ==
 
* [[Gerlach Nevada climate summary]]

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