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Black Rock Desert Nevada wiki [[Main Page]] / [[Climate and Weather]] <hr/><hr/> | Black Rock Desert Nevada wiki [[Main Page]] / [[Climate and Weather]] <hr/><hr/> | ||
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== Current Observations == | == Current Observations == | ||
Revision as of 04:17, 26 March 2009
Black Rock Desert Nevada wiki Main Page / Climate and Weather
Please see also: Black Rock Desert Current Conditions
Current Observations
Black Rock Desert Current Conditions
RAWS:
Regional Conditions and Forecasts
Intellicast.com - Local Weather in Reno, Nevada
Satellite Imagery
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=rev
Fire Weather
http://www.nifc.gov/smokejumper/smjrpt.php
Historic
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.
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.