Ok, thanks for responding. Is there a possibility that being on the ocean is being an affector here? Or is it just plain the hight. In @Chookwagn's pictures, it looked as though the snow went down to the base or close to it? I've been up My. Washington in New Hampshire, and I didn't see snow there either.
Being near the ocean has a great modifying effect on your local climate. Altitude also has a big effect. The fact that he is in the southern hemisphere and just coming out of winter also makes a difference since the winter snows on those mountains haven't hit the heat of summer yet.
Ok. That's interesting. I didn't know that the ocean would have an effect on where I live and go. New Zealand is just coming out of winter? Wow, so different from here!
Well, that's because the geology of Maine isn't Volcanicly active anymore. Your mountains are all old and worn down. NZ is hundreds of millions of years younger than Maine and still tectonically awake.
So volcanoes have an effect? What about one that has never erupted? I believe that there is an unknown volcano in the town next to me. In my small volcanic knowledge, this deep 'pond' is actually a volcano that has never erupted. (One way I know this is a volcano other than the fact no one can find the bottom is because it's in a white granite quarry.)
TL;DR "It's a little more complicated but has more to do with elevation and weather patterns than the actual volcanoes" Also, there are at least 4 ancient volcanic sites in Maine.
Do I see a little INTJ here?TL;DR "It's a little more complicated but has more to do with elevation and weather patterns than the actual volcanoes" Also, there are at least 4 ancient volcanic sites in Maine.
A bit more in depth answer.
Elevation does. Your mountains are all worn down so the snow melts (more or less, I know that's not always accurate in ME). Higher peaks worldwide usually keep snowpack longer, often almost all year. In general, the younger the mountain range, the higher and more rugged the peaks are because erosion hasn't worn them down over time. As a result, they're generally cooler at the summmits and exposed to moisture that's more abundant at higher elevations. Weather patterns have a lot to do with it too (like the jet stream, which def impacts Montana and Wyoming along with their high elevation and access to inland pacific moisture). Even AZ's highest peak has snow almost all year (at 12.6k feet) because temps at the summit are cool enough inside the summit crater to keep it all from melting. Proximity to moisture (like an ocean or like lake effect snow) can influence the volume of snowpack deposited (more moisture, more snow), but at the end of the day it's staying cooler longer that keeps it from melting off. NZ is very youn geologically, it's mountains are tall and rugged and it has cool temps and access to abundant moisture. So the views are often snow-topped (and they're transitioning through spring now so it's gradually getting warmer there where we're cooling off here.)
When it cools globally, more snow stays on the peaks longer, and builds up over millennia. If it goes on long enough, we get ice ages, and then when it warms, the glaciers melt and we end up here like we are in the Anthropocene today.
I'm not a climatologist, so please take this with a grain of salt. Im explaining it as best I can from what I've learned and had explained to me. I definitely would find better sources to verify me.
A LITTLE?Do I see a little INTJ here?
Cool stuff.
And in my pictures the water is a lake not an ocean..... and that lake water is cold
Beautiful!Some pics I took yesterday... on my phone
