2024年01月21日:1938年上密西根半岛的暴风雪-（The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938）

2024年01月21日:1938年上密西根半岛的暴风雪-（The Upper Michigan Blizzard of 1938）--原图下载

Image Credit: Bill Brinkman; Courtesy: Paula Rocco
说明: 你见过的暴风雪威力有这么大吗？在1938年，上密西根半岛世纪暴风雪期间，有些积雪的高度几乎和电线桿等高。86年前的这场风暴，很意外的在头两天就降下将近1公尺深的新雪。当大雪纷飞时，强阵风接着把雪堆叠到难以想像的高度，不但造成许多道路难以通行，就连除雪也成了不可能的任务。于是，除了居民寸步难行之外，轿车、校车和火车都深陷白雪里。更惨的是，当时还发生了一场大火；万幸这场雪灾和火灾只造成2人丧生，不过，有些学生困在学校里达数天之久。上面这张主题影像，是当地的一位居民摄于暴风雪刚过之后。这些大雪最后都消融了，然而，在地球雪区这种规模的连续暴雪，则有助于形成永久的冰川。

原文：

Image Credit: Bill Brinkman; Courtesy: Paula Rocco
Explanation: Yes, but can your blizzard do this?In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles.Nearly a meter of new and unexpected snow fell over two days in a storm that started 86 years ago this week. As snow fell and gale-force winds piled snow to surreal heights, many roads became not only impassable but unplowable; people became stranded, cars, school buses and a train became mired, and even a dangerous fire raged.Two people were killed and some students were forced to spend several consecutive days at school. The featured image was taken by a local resident soon after the storm.Although all of this snow eventually melted, repeated snow storms like this help build lasting glaciers in snowy regions of our planet Earth.